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SAHEL STANDARDIZED RAINFALL  

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  • 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/ (en)

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  • 2012-06-25 10:09:45.0 [mpmorahan] Insert Concept add broader relation (SAHEL STANDARDIZED RAINFALL [e13b084e-d044-49c9-8791-f057f777fca3,39681] - PRECIPITATION INDICATORS [789939a6-3cd5-46f3-bdfd-5cdd6a012500,39675]);
  • 2012-07-05 14:44:23.0 [mpmorahan] insert Definition (id: null text: 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/ language code: en);

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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/e13b084e-d044-49c9-8791-f057f777fca3

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