Introducing an Irrigation Scheme to a Regional Climate Model: A Case Study over West Africa

Introducing an Irrigation Scheme to a Regional Climate Model: A Case Study over West Africa

This article presents a new irrigation scheme and biome to the dynamic vegetation model, Integrated Biosphere Simulator (IBIS), coupled to version 3 of the Regional Climate Model (RegCM3-IBIS). The new land cover allows for only the plant functional type (crop) to exist in an irrigated grid cell. Ir...

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Main Authors: Marcella, Marc Pace (Contributor), Eltahir, Elfatih A. B. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Meteorological Society, 2015-03-03T17:03:13Z.
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