"Ghana dry zone" and "Dahomey gap": Causes of a rainfall anomaly in Tropical West Africa;"Ghana Dry Zone" und "Dahomey Gap": Ursachen für eine Niederschlagsanomalie im tropischen Westafrika

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Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 375-393

  Vollmert, Patrick ^a   Fink, Andreas H ^b   Besler, Helga ^b  

^a Universität zu Köln ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coastal divergence; Ekman transport; Kelvin wave; Squall lines

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANOMALY; DIVERGENCE; EKMAN TRANSPORT; KELVIN WAVE; RAINFALL; SQUALL LINE;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); EASTERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC REGIONS; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 11144219701     PISSN: 00139998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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