North African climate variability. Part 2: Tropical circulation systems

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 37-49

  Yeshanew, Abebe ^a   Jury, Mark R ^b  

^a National Meteorological Services Agency   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; RAINFALL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GUINEA; NILE RIVER; NORTH AFRICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 34247211214     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-006-0243-7     Document Type: Article

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