A further assessment of vegetation feedback on decadal Sahel rainfall variability

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 1453-1466

  Kucharski, Fred ^a   Zeng, Ning ^b   Kalnay, Eugenia ^b  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Interactive vegetation; Sahel rainfall; SST forcing

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION;

SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

EID: 84874305399     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1397-x     Document Type: Article

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