Seasonal and year-to-year variations of rainfall in the Sahara desert region based on TRMM PR data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Harada, Chikako ^a   Sumi, Akimasa ^a   Ohmori, Hiroo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RAIN; WIND EFFECTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN GAGES;

DESERTS; AFRICAN EASTERLY JET; NCEP REANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION RADAR; REGION-BASED; SAHARA DESERT; SEASONAL MIGRATION; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

GEOPHYSICS; RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; DESERT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL;

AFRICA; SAHARA;

EID: 0043192814     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016695     Document Type: Article

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