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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)S357-S463
JournalBulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume102
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
• Valuable climate information was provided by National Meteorological and Hydrological Services of the WMO RA VI Region, either by direct submission to the authors or via the web. • Valentina Khan acknowledges the support of Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (Agreement No.075-15-2021-577 with A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics RAS).

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We would like to acknowledge the national and/or hydrometeorological services/bureaus of Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Senegal (National Aviation and Meteorology Agency), Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, South Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles, Comoros Mayotte (France), Reunion (France), and Mauritius. • We acknowledge support by the NOAA-CPC International Desk. Global data sets from NCEP./NCAR and GPCP are acknowledged. • Samson Hagos and Zhe Feng are supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research as part of the Atmospheric Systems Research (ASR) Program.

Funding Information:
• The following grants (China National Key R&D Program 2018YFC1505806 and 2018YFA0605604, NSF AGS-2006553, and NOAA grant NA18OAR4310298) are acknowledged.

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