Recent trends in the regime of extreme rainfall in the Central Sahel

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 3998-4006

  Panthou, G ^a,b,c   Vischel, T ^a,b,c   Lebel, T ^a,b,c  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Extreme rainfall; Hydrological cycle intensification; Sahel

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING;

ANNUAL RAINFALL; DAILY RAINFALL; EXTREME CLIMATES; EXTREME RAINFALL; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; RAINFALL REGIME; RECENT TRENDS; SAHEL;

RAIN;

EID: 84914097009     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3984     Document Type: Article

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