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7 1 Congo Basin Research 1.1. INTRODUCTION 1.2. OVERVIEW OF THE CONGO BASIN 1.3. THE HISTORY AND THE FUTURE OF THE CONGO BASIN 1.4. ESTABLISHING A NEW ERA FOR CONGO RESEARCH REFERENCES
8 Part I: Influences on Rainfall 2 Central African Climate 2.1. INTRODUCTION 2.2. RAINBELT MECHANISMS 2.3. CONVECTION 2.4 CLIMATE MODELING 2.5 CONCLUSION REFERENCES 3 The Rainfall and Convective Regime over Equatorial Africa, with Emphasis on the Congo Basin 3.1. INTRODUCTION 3.2. METEOROLOGICAL BACKGROUND 3.3. DATA 3.4. MEAN RAINFALL 3.5. INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY 3.6. CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY 3.7. COMPARISON WITH THE AMAZON 3.8. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES 2 Influence of “Slab‐Ocean” Parameterization in a Regional Climate Model (RegCM4) over Central Africa 4.1. INTRODUCTION 4.2. DESCRIPTION OF THE MODEL, EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOL, DATA, AND METHODOLOGY 4.3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 4.4. CONCLUSION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES 5 Understanding the Influence of Climate Variability on Surface Water Hydrology in the Congo Basin 5.1. INTRODUCTION 5.2. MATERIALS AND METHOD 5.3. RESULTS 5.4. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES 6 Hydroclimatic Dynamics of Upstream Ubangi River at Mobaye, Central African Republic 6.1. INTRODUCTION 6.2. STUDY AREA: UPPER BASIN OF THE UBANGI RIVER AT MOBAYE 6.3. DATA AND METHODS 6.4. RESULTS 6.5. DISCUSSION 6.6. CONCLUSION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES 7 Evaluation of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 3B42 and 3B43 Products Relative to Synoptic Weather Station Observations over Cameroon 7.1. INTRODUCTION 7.2. STUDY AREA: AGROCLIMATIC ZONES IN CAMEROON 7.3. DATA 7.4. METHODOLOGY FOR TRMM EVALUATION 7.5. RESULTS 7.6. DISCUSSION 7.7. CONCLUSION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES
9 Part II: Variations in Rainfall and Runoff 8 A New Look at Hydrology in the Congo Basin, Based on the Study of Multi‐Decadal Time Series 8.1. INTRODUCTION 8.2. DATA AND METHODS 8.3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 8.4. CONCLUSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES