Scales for rating heavy rainfall events in the West African Sahel

In the field of climate services, characterization of rainfall extremes is useful to identify and quantify rain rates that can trigger floods, on-farm water stagnation, excess run-off causing arable soil depletion and other natural hazards. Delving through multiple sources of observational uncertain...

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Main Authors: Seyni Salack, Inoussa A. Saley, Namo Z. Lawson, Ibrahim Zabré, Elidaa K. Daku
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-09-01
Series:Weather and Climate Extremes
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221209471730186X