Journal article
Monitoring drought in Ghana using TAMSAT-ALERT: A new decision support system
- Abstract:
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Many African people are reliant on agriculture as a means of survival and are particularly sensitive to variations in rainfall. There is therefore a clear need for usable risk assessment and decision support tools for the management of agricultural drought (soil moisture deficit). This article describes an application of TAMSAT-ALERT (Tropical Applications of Meteorology using SATellite data and ground-based observations AgriculturaL EaRly warning sysTem), a decision support tool which exp...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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University of Reading
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Weather Journal website
- Volume:
- 72
- Issue:
- 7
- Pages:
- 201-205
- Publication date:
- 2017-07-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-05-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1477-8696
- ISSN:
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0043-1656
- Source identifiers:
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907073
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:907073
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uuid:e6770096-919d-4a27-9e86-b5cd773b1bf2
- Local pid:
- pubs:907073
- Deposit date:
- 2018-08-28
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- Copyright holder:
- Brown et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © 2017 The Authors. Weather published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of the Royal Meteorological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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