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Predicting rainy season potential from the onset of rains in southern Sahelian and Sudanian climatic zones of West Africa

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Title Predicting rainy season potential from the onset of rains in southern Sahelian and Sudanian climatic zones of West Africa
 
Creator Sivakumar, M V K
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Analysis of long-term daily rainfall data for 58 locations in the southern Sahelian and Sudanian climatic zones of West Africa showed that a significant relationship exists between the date of onset of rains and the length of the growing season. Early onset of rains, relative to the computed mean date of onset for a given location, resulted in a longer growing season. Probabilities of growing season lengths for early, normal and delayed onset of rains were computed for all the locations. This analysis has important applications in crop and disaster planning for drought-prone West Africa.
 
Date 1988
 
Type Article
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1436/1/AgricAndForestMet_42%284%29295-305_1988.pdf
Sivakumar, M V K (1988) Predicting rainy season potential from the onset of rains in southern Sahelian and Sudanian climatic zones of West Africa. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 42 (4). pp. 295-305.