Three-dimensional kinematic trajectory modelling of water vapour transport over Southern Africa

Water SA

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 297-306

  D'Abreton, P C ^a   Tyson, P D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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