Guinean coastal rainfall of the West African Monsoon

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 660, 2011, Pages 1828-1840

  Nguyen, Hanh ^a   Thorncroft, Chris D ^a   Zhang, Chidong ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold tongue; Monsoon onset; West African coastal rainfall

Indexed keywords

COASTAL RAIN; COLD TONGUE; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; MONSOON ONSET; RAIN RATES; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; STANDARD DEVIATION; WATER COOLING; WEST AFRICAN COASTAL RAINFALL; WEST AFRICAN MONSOON;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE; STATISTICS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

RAIN;

COASTAL ZONE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINBAND; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WINTER;

GUINEA;

EID: 79251488740     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.867     Document Type: Article

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