Atmospheric dynamics over northwest Africa and linkages with Sahelian rainfall

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2006, Pages

  Tourre, Yves M ^a,b   Paz, Shlomit ^c   Cassou, Christophe ^d   Kutiel, Haim ^c  

^a MEDIAS France   (France)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA LEVEL; STORMS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GREENHOUSE GASES; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE (SLP);

RAIN;

ANOMALY; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE VARIATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; RAINFALL; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TIME SERIES;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; PORTUGAL; SAHARA; SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33845681503     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026695     Document Type: Article

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