Predictability of Zimbabwe summer rainfall

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1421-1432

  Makarau, Amos ^a   Jury, Mark R ^b  

^a Meteorological Services Department   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Prediction model; Spatial correlations; Summer rainfall; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000299553     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0088(19971115)17:13<1421::aid-joc202>3.3.co;2-q     Document Type: Article

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