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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marcella, Marc Pace, Eltahir, Elfatih A. B.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95749