Detection and attribution of twentieth-century northern and southern African rainfall change

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 3989-4008

  Hoerling, Martin ^a   Hurrell, James ^b   Eischeid, Jon ^a   Phillips, Adam ^b  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT CONVECTION;

ATLANTIC INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GREENHOUSE-GAS-FORCED EXPERIMENTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

AFRICA;

EID: 33746445500     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3842.1     Document Type: Article

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