Monsoon rains over West Africa

Gert-Dietrich Schupelius

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v28i6.11320

Monsoon rains over West Africa

Tellus

Volume 28 (1976): Issue 6

By: Gert-Dietrich Schupelius

Open Access

|Jan 1976

Abstract

Potential mechanisms producing high or low seasonal rainfall in tropical West Africa are investigated for the period 1963–74 using monthly data of precipitation, surface pressure in the South Atlantic and rawinsondes, mainly in Africa. Contrary to widespread opinion, the South Atlantic pressures yielded no correlation; the best connection was between rainfall and upper-level African observations.

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