Predicting the impacts of climate change—A case study of paddy irrigation water requirements in Sri Lanka

Nearly 72% of paddy production, the staple food in Sri Lanka, is grown during the wet season in dry areas where water resources are already stressed. Climate change datasets for Sri Lanka were derived using outputs from the UK Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research Model (HadCM3) for sele...

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Published in:	Agricultural water management Vol. 93; no. 1; pp. 19 - 29
Main Authors:	De Silva, C.S., Weatherhead, E.K., Knox, J.W., Rodriguez-Diaz, J.A.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 16-10-2007 Elsevier Science Elsevier
Series:	Agricultural Water Management
Subjects:	Adaptation Agricultural and forest climatology and meteorology. Irrigation. Drainage Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions Biological and medical sciences Food production Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology General agronomy. Plant production Geographical information system Irrigation. Drainage Spatial variability Water resources Asia Sri Lanka South Asia British Isles Spatial variability Food production Geographical information system Water resources Adaptation Irrigation Monocotyledones Tropical zone Developing countries Irrigation water Cereal crop Oryza sativa Gramineae Irrigated farming Angiospermae Water engineering Plant production Prediction Tropical crop Impact study Agroclimatology Wet rice cultivation Case study Geographic information system Water requirement Spermatophyta Climate modification
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