Impacts of warm and cold situations in the Mediterranean basins on the West African monsoon: Observed connection patterns (1979-2006) and climate simulations

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-114

  Fontaine, Bernard ^a   Garcia Serrano, Javier ^b   Roucou, Pascal ^a   Rodriguez Fonseca, Belen ^b   Losada, Teresa ^b   Chauvin, Fabrice ^d   Gervois, Sébastien ^c   Sijikumar, Sivarajan ^a   Ruti, Paolo ^e   Janicot, Serge ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^d CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^e Institute for Environmental Protection and Research   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MONSOON; NUMERICAL METHOD; OVERTURN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF GUINEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77954143846     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0599-3     Document Type: Article

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