Atlantic Forcing of Persistent Drought in West Africa

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2009-04-17

• Fields of study

  Geography, Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/science.1166352PMID 19372429
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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