Sahel standardized rainfall

prefLabel
  • Sahel Standardized Rainfall
definition
  • From Mitchell: The averaging region is based on the rotated principal component analysis of average June through September African rainfall presented in Janowiak (1988, J. Climate, 1, 240-255). Stations within 20-8N, 20W-10E are obtained from the National Center for Atmospheric Research World Monthly Surface Station Climatology (WMSSC), and 14 retained which had complete or almost complete records for 1950-93. See link for stations. http://jisao.washington.edu/data_sets/sahel/
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