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Spatio‐temporal characteristics of the recent rainfall recovery in West Africa

ABSTRACT Using daily (monthly) rainfall data from 167 (254) stations across West Africa with at least 80% data availability for the 31‐year period 1980–2010 and the gridded African Rainfall Climatology Version 2 (ARC2) for the period 1983–2010, linear trends in yearly and monthly rainfall totals wer...

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Published in:International journal of climatology 2015-12, Vol.35 (15), p.4589-4605
Main Authors: Sanogo, Souleymane, Fink, Andreas H., Omotosho, Jerome A., Ba, Abdramane, Redl, Robert, Ermert, Volker
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