Understanding the Large Scale Driving Mechanisms of Rainfall Variability over Central Africa

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 43, Issue , 2011, Pages 101-122

  Farnsworth, A ^a   White, E ^b   Williams, Charles J R ^a   Black, E ^a   Kniveton, Dominic R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central Africa; Composite analysis; Jets; Large scale mechanisms; Rain gauge data; Rainfall; SST

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887618667     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3842-5_5     Document Type: Chapter

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