Variability of circulation and Sahel rainfall in the twentieth century

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1693-1698

  Hastenrath, Stefan ^a   Polzin, Dierk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic variability; Rainfall; Sahel; Trend; Tropical Atlantic; Wind confluence

Indexed keywords

THERMAL GRADIENTS;

CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SAHEL; TEMPERATURE RISE; TREND; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WIND COMPONENTS;

RAIN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WIND PROFILE;

ATLANTIC SECTOR; SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA]; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84897916398     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3740     Document Type: Article

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