Natural climatic variability and Sahelian rainfall trends

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 107-131

  Hunt, B G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climatic variability; Drought; NAO; PNA; Sahel

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; RAINFALL;

AFRICA;

EID: 0034077216     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(99)00064-8     Document Type: Article

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