The East African March-May rainy season: Associated atmospheric dynamics and predictability over the 1968-97 period

Journal of Climate

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1002-1019

  Camberlin, Pierre ^a   Philippon, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; RAIN; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COOL SURGES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINFALL;

(EAST); AFRICA;

EID: 0036571974     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<1002:TEAMMR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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