Seasonality of African precipitation from 1996 to 2009

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4304-4322

  Liebmann, Brant ^a   Bladé, Ileana ^b   Kiladis, George N ^c   Carvalho, Leila M V ^d   Senay, Gabriel B ^e   Allured, Dave ^a   Leroux, Stephanie ^a   Funk, Chris ^d  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; DATA SETS; DRY PERIODS; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SUMMER MONSOON; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; WEST AFRICA; WET PERIOD; WET SEASON;

CLIMATOLOGY; FOOD SUPPLY; RAIN;

SEPARATION;

EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TRMM; WET SEASON;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84865176066     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00157.1     Document Type: Article

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