CLIMATIC VARIABILITY AND LONG RAINFALL SE RIES ANALYSIS IN NON-SAHELIAN WESTERN AND CENTRAL-AFRICA

Authors
PATUREL JE SERVAT E LUBESNIEL H DELATTRE MO
Citation
Je. Paturel et al., CLIMATIC VARIABILITY AND LONG RAINFALL SE RIES ANALYSIS IN NON-SAHELIAN WESTERN AND CENTRAL-AFRICA, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes, 325(10), 1997, pp. 779-782
Citations number
4
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes → ACNP
ISSN journal
12518050
Volume
325
Issue
10
Year of publication
1997
Pages
779 - 782
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8050(1997)325:10<779:CVALRS>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
Annual rainfall time series registered over a long duration for a set of stations all over non-Sabelian Western and Central Africa have allo wed the study of spatial and temporal rainfall evolution in this regio n. The results underline the existence of alternating dry and wet peri ods since the beginning of the 20th century. However, the current drou ght has no equivalent neither regarding duration nor intensity, all ov er the studied period.