Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30ecli5k&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 5, pp. CLI 5-1, CiteID 8005, DOI 10.1029/2002GL015290
Physics
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Hydrology: Precipitation (3354), Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Land/Atmosphere Interactions, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Boundary Layer Processes, Oceanography: General: Climate And Interannual Variability (3309)
Scientific paper
A statistical analysis is performed between the rainfall anomalies in Côte d'Ivoire (West Africa) and those of sea surface temperature and pseudo-wind stress in the tropical Atlantic. The correlation structures show that the coastal and northern regions of Côte d'Ivoire are differently related to the meteo-oceanic variables. While the main rainy seasons of these two Ivorian regions are both related to a negative SST/rain correlation pattern, itself strongly linked to the abnormal position of the intertropical convergence zone, the dry season of the littoral zone is related to a positive SST/rain correlation pattern which remains offshore of Côte d'Ivoire. Our study illustrates the inverse climatic behaviour observed between the northern and the littoral zones during the two ``Atlantic's El Niños'' of 1968 and 1984.
Kouadio Yves K.
Ochou Delfin A.
Servain Jacques
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