The impact of the African Great Lakes on the regional climate

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4061-4085

  Thiery, Wim ^a   Davin, Edouard L ^b   Panitz, Hans Jürgen ^c   Demuzere, Matthias ^a   Lhermitte, Stef ^a   Van Lipzig, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

COMMUNITY LAND MODELS; CONVECTIVE INHIBITION; EAST AFRICAN CLIMATES; LAKE SURFACE TEMPERATURE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TURBULENT HEAT TRANSPORT;

LAKES;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE VICTORIA;

EID: 84933280640     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00565.1     Document Type: Article

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