Towards the prediction of Sahelian rainfall from sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Guinea

A. Bah

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v39i1.11738

Towards the prediction of Sahelian rainfall from sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Guinea

Tellus

Volume 39 (1987): Issue 1

By: A. Bah

Open Access

|Jan 1987

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