The relation between rainfall and area-time integrals at the transition from an arid to an equatorial climate

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 3806-3819

  Kebe, Cheikh Mouhamed Fadel ^a,b   Sauvageot, Henri ^a   Nzeukou, Armand ^c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; WEATHER SATELLITES;

AREA-TIME INTEGRAL (ATI) METHOD; ARID CLIMATE; EQUATORIAL CLIMATE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

INFRARED IMAGERY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 27144436380     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3451.1     Document Type: Article

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