The 2010-2011 drought in the Horn of Africa in ECMWF reanalysis and seasonal forecast products

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1720-1729

  Dutra, Emanuel ^a   Magnusson, Linus ^a   Wetterhall, Fredrik ^a   Cloke, Hannah L ^a,b   Balsamo, Gianpaolo ^a   Boussetta, Souhail ^a   Pappenberger, Florian ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drought; East Africa; Monitoring; Precipitation; Reanalysis; Seasonal forecast

Indexed keywords

EAST AFRICA; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PRECIPITATION DEFICITS; REANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SEASONAL FORECASTS;

LASERS; MONITORING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DROUGHT;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DROUGHT; LA NINA; NDVI; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HORN OF AFRICA;

EID: 84878795241     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3545     Document Type: Article

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