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RISAn Analysis of Recent Rainfall Conditions in West Africa, Including the Rainy Seasons of the 1997 El Niño and the 1998 La Niña Years
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This article examines recent rainfall conditions throughout the Sahel and in other parts of West Africa in detail and presents an overview of changes in rainfall on timescales of decades for Africa as a whole. In West ...
Validation of TRMM and Other Rainfall Estimates with a High-Density Gauge Dataset for West Africa. Part I: Validation of GPCC Rainfall Product and Pre-TRMM Satellite and Blended Products
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Gauge data over North Africa are used to provide an assessment of satellite and blended rainfall products for 1988?94 and for 1998. A comparison is also made with the Global Precipitation Climatology Center (GPCC) gauge ...
Validation of TRMM and Other Rainfall Estimates with a High-Density Gauge Dataset for West Africa. Part II: Validation of TRMM Rainfall Products
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Gauge data from a West African network of 920 stations are used to assess Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite and blended rainfall products for 1998. In this study, mean fields, scattergrams, and latitudinal ...