Rainfall climatology of the HAPEX-Sahel region during the years 1950-1990

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 188-189, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 43-73

  Le Barbe L ^a   Lebel, T ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; HAPEX-SAHEL; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION; RAINFALL; RAINFALL MODELLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

NIGER;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HYDROLOGICAL AND ATMOSPHERIC PILOT EXPERIMENT (HAPEX);

RAIN;

EID: 0030615675     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(96)03154-X     Document Type: Article

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