A two-century precipitation dataset for the continent of Africa

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1219-1231

  Nicholson, Sharon E ^a   Dezfuli, Amin K ^a,b   Klotter, Douglas ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA CENTERS; DATA SETS; HISTORICAL INFORMATION; PALEOCLIMATES; RAIN GAUGES;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; METEOROLOGY;

GAGES;

EID: 84866436203     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00212.1     Document Type: Review

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