What controls the isotopic composition of the African monsoon precipitation? Insights from event-based precipitation collected during the 2006 AMMA field campaign

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 24, 2008, Pages

  Risi, Camille ^a,e   Bony, Sandrine ^a,e   Vimeux, Francoise ^b   Descroix, Luc ^a   Ibrahim, Boubacar ^c   Lebreton, Eric ^a   Mamadou, Ibrahim ^a   Sultan, Benjamin ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^e LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AFRICAN MONSOONS; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION;

ISOTOPES;

FIELD METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ERITREA; NIAMEY [NIGER]; NIGER [WEST AFRICA]; SAHEL [ERITREA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 61349139411     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035920     Document Type: Article

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