The spatiotemporal climate variability over Senegal and its relationship to global climate

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2057-2076

  Fall, Souleymane ^a,b   Semazzi, Fredrick H M ^a   Niyogi, Dev Dutta S ^b   Anyah, Richard O ^a   Bowden, Jared ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EOF; GIS; Precipitation; Senegal; Temperature; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOISTURE; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; RELIABILITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENEGAL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GIS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES; WARM WATER;

AFRICA; SENEGAL; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 34147190589     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1355     Document Type: Article

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