Precipitation variability and trends in Ghana: An intercomparison of observational and reanalysis products

Climatic Change

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 805-819

  Manzanas, R ^a   Amekudzi, L K ^b   Preko, K ^b   Herrera, S ^a   Gutierrez J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SATELLITES;

EXTREME PRECIPITATION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERCOMPARISONS; MANN-KENDALL TRENDS; METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY; POOR PERFORMANCE; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; PSEUDO-OBSERVATIONS;

GAGES;

CORRELATION; DATA SET; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

GHANA;

EID: 84902290858     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1100-9     Document Type: Article

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