Monsoon onset over Sudan-Sahel: Simulation by the regional scale model MM5

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Sijikumar, Sivarajan ^a   Roucou, Pascal ^a   Fontaine, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

MESOSCALE MODEL MM5; MONSOON ONSET; ZONAL FLOW;

RAIN;

MODELING; MONSOON; RAINFALL;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SUDAN;

EID: 33645822762     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024819     Document Type: Article

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