Precipitation variability and trends in Ghana: An intercomparison of observational and reanalysis products

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Climatic Change

• Publication date

  2014-04-06

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s10584-014-1100-9
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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