Surface albedo response to Sahel precipitation changes

Eos

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 25-26

  Govaerts, Yves ^a   Lattanzlo, Alessio ^b  

^a EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^b Makalumedia   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

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

EID: 33846980745     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007EO030002     Document Type: Article

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