On the spatial coherence of rainfall over the Saloum delta (Senegal) from seasonal to decadal time scales
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1 Laboratory of Physics of the Atmosphere and Ocean Simeon Fongang, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal, Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 4 LOCEAN Laboratory, IRD-UPMC-CNRS-MNHN, Sorbonne Universités (Univ. Paris VI), Paris, France, 5 Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Ecole pratique des hautes études, Montpellier, France
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