Role of the west African westerly jet in sahel rainfall variations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2880-2896

  Pu, Bing ^a,b   Cook, Kerry H ^a,b  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Climate variability; Jets; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL TIMESCALE; DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL; LOW-LEVEL FEATURES; MOISTURE FLUXES; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; PRECIPITATION VARIATION; RAINFALL VARIATION; RELATIVE VORTICITY; VORTICITY BALANCE; WEST AFRICAN MONSOON;

CLIMATOLOGY; JETS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); VORTICITY;

RAIN;

CLIMATE VARIATION; JET; MOISTURE FLUX; MOISTURE TRANSFER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; VORTICITY; WESTERLY;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84859961201     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00394.1     Document Type: Article

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