Climate variability in central equatorial Africa: Influence from the Atlantic sector

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Todd, Martin C ^a   Washington, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1833 Hydrology: Hydroclimatology; 3309 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Climatology (1620); 3339 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Ocean atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504); 9305 Information Related to Geographic Region: Africa

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN;

LARGE SCALE CIRCULATION; MULTI-ANNUAL TIMESCALES; POLAR REGIONS; POSITIVE RAINFALL ANOMALIES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; RAINFALL; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; ZONAL WIND;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 16644378483     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020975     Document Type: Article

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