Sahel droughts and ENSO dynamics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 515-518

  Janicot, Serge ^a,c   Moron, Vincent ^b   Fontaine, Bernard ^b  

^a MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; RAIN; SURFACE WATERS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; RAINFALL INTENSITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DROUGHT; DROUGHTS; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSO; FREQUENCY CORRELATIONS; RAINFALL; SAHEL RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST ANOMALIES; ZONAL DIVERGENT CIRCULATION;

AFRICA, (WEST); AFRICA, SAHEL;

EID: 0029729415     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00246     Document Type: Article

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