Composite patterns of easterly disturbances over West Africa and the tropical Atlantic: A climatology from the 1979-95 NCEP/NCAR reanalyses

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 241-253

  Diedhiou, A ^a   Janicot, S ^b   Viltard, A ^c   De Felice P ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CONVECTION; EASTERLY WAVE; WIND;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035672525     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820100173     Document Type: Article

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