Observation of oceanic origin of Sahel precipitation from space

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 123, Issue , 2012, Pages 593-599

  Liu, W Timothy ^a   Xie, Xiaosu ^a   Katsaros, Kristina B ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Ocean atmosphere land interaction; Remote sensing; Sahel rainfall; West African Monsoon

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN EASTERLY WAVES; ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONVERGENCE ZONES; GULF OF GUINEA; IN-PHASE; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LOCAL INSTABILITY; MOISTURE ADVECTION; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; NORTHERN REGIONS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE-LAND INTERACTION; ONSHORE FLOW; OUT OF PHASE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SOCIETAL IMPACTS; WEST AFRICAN MONSOON; WEST COAST;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING;

RAIN;

ADVECTION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA SET; DROUGHT; EASTERLY WAVE; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MOISTURE FLUX; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OFFSHORE APPLICATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOCIAL IMPACT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF GUINEA; SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

EID: 84863708020     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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