Air-sea interaction in the Gulf of Guinea at intraseasonal time-scales: Wind bursts and coastal precipitation in boreal spring

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 671, 2013, Pages 387-400

  Leduc Leballeur, Marion ^a   de Coëtlogon, Gaëlle ^a   Eymard, Laurence ^b  

^a SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Tropical Atlantic; West African monsoon

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; COASTAL PRECIPITATION; EASTERN EQUATORIAL ATLANTIC; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TRANSITION MECHANISM; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; WEST AFRICAN MONSOON; WIND VARIABILITIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LASERS;

OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRESSURE GRADIENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPRING (SEASON); SURFACE WIND; TROPOSPHERE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); GULF OF GUINEA;

EID: 84875381024     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1981     Document Type: Article

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