The estimation of rainfall in the Sahelian squall line by the area-threshold method

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 207-216

  Buarque, Silvana Ramos ^a   Sauvageot, Henri ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

Author keywords

Convective processes; Mesoscale meteorology; Niger; Precipitation; Radar meteorology; Sahel; Tropical meteorology; West Africa

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE RAINFALL; RADAR; RAINFALL; SQUALL LINE;

NIGER, NIAMEY;

EID: 0030712389     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0169-8095(96)00033-6     Document Type: Article

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