Changing water availability during the African maize-growing season, 1979-2010

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Estes, Lyndon D ^a,b   Chaney, Nathaniel W ^b   Herrera Estrada, Julio ^b   Sheffield, Justin ^b   Caylor, Kelly K ^b   Wood, Eric F ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

maize; sub Saharan Africa; trends; water demand; water supply

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; RAIN; WATER SUPPLY;

INCREASING TEMPERATURES; MAIZE; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TRENDS; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER DEMAND; WATER SUPPLY AND DEMANDS;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84905186883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/075005     Document Type: Review

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