The recent trend of increasing precipitation in Sahel and the associated inter-hemispheric dipole of global SST

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1346-1353

  Munemoto, Masaki ^a   Tachibana, Yoshihiro ^a,b  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Global SST; Precipitation; Sahel; Trend shift

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GLOBAL SST; LONG-TERM VARIATIONS; MERIDIONAL WINDS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RECENT TRENDS; SAHEL; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TREND SHIFTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; HUMIDITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TREND ANALYSIS; WIND;

SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

EID: 84863619858     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2356     Document Type: Article

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