Investigating the influence of synoptic-scale monsoonal winds and mesoscale circulations on diurnal weather patterns over Kenya using a mesoscale numerical model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 224-243

  Mukabana, Joseph R ^a   Pielke, Roger A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

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EID: 0001748529     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1996)124<0224:itioss>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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