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

Understanding how global change is impacting African agriculture requires a full physical accounting of water supply and demand, but accurate, gridded data on key drivers (e.g., humidity) are generally unavailable. We used a new bias-corrected meteorological dataset to analyze changes in precipitati...

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Main Authors: Lyndon D Estes, Nathaniel W Chaney, Julio Herrera-Estrada, Justin Sheffield, Kelly K Caylor, Eric F Wood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/075005