Development of a high-resolution gridded daily meteorological dataset over sub-Saharan Africa: Spatial analysis of trends in climate extremes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5815-5835

  Chaney, Nathaniel W ^a   Sheffield, Justin ^a   Villarini, Gabriele ^b   Wood, Eric F ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Data assimilation; Extreme events; Time series; Trends

Indexed keywords

TIME SERIES; WATER RESOURCES;

AFRICA; DATA ASSIMILATION; EXTREME EVENTS; MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL INHOMOGENEITIES; TRENDS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; METEOROLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS;

SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

EID: 84905186568     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00423.1     Document Type: Article

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