Tropical Atlantic moisture availability and precipitation over West Africa: Application to DEMETER hindcasts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 21, 2006, Pages

  Rogel, Philippe ^a   Tourre, Yves M ^b,c   Benoit, Vincent ^a,d   Jarlan, Lionel ^d  

^a CERFACS   (France)

^b MEDIAS France   (France)

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

^d CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN;

MOISTURE AVAILABILITY; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; RAINFALL ANALYSIS;

WATER CONTENT;

CLIMATE MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MOISTURE CONTENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; UPPER OCEAN;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 34248536014     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027178     Document Type: Article

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