Numerical investigation of the impact of vegetation indices on the variability of West African summer monsoon

Weiping Li (1, 2, 3) , Yongkang Xue (3, 4) , Isabelle Poccard-Leclercq (3, 5)

1 LCS - Laboratory for Climate Studies [Beijing]
2 National Climate Center of China Meteorological Administration
3 Department of Geography [Los Angeles]
4 AOS - Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences [Los Angeles]
5 LETG - Nantes - Littoral, Environnement, Télédétection, Géomatique

Mots clés: satellite vegetation index; offline and GCM simulation; West African summer monsoon

Domaines: Climatologie; Interfaces continentales, environnement

Weiping Li, Yongkang Xue, Isabelle Poccard-Leclercq. Numerical investigation of the impact of vegetation indices on the variability of West African summer monsoon. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 2007, 85A, pp.363-383. ⟨hal-00021789⟩