Soil moisture memory and West African monsoon predictability: Artefact or reality?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 28, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 723-742

  Douville, Herve ^a   Conil, S ^a   Tyteca, S ^a   Voldoire, A ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; TIMESCALE;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 34247577180     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-006-0207-8     Document Type: Article

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