Early detection of the start of the wet season in semiarid tropical climates of western Africa

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  International Journal of Climatology

• Publication date

  2001-08-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/JOC.640
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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