Towards an interpretation of historical droughts in northern Nigeria

Climatic Change

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 601-616

  Tarhule, Aondover ^a   Woo, Ming Ko ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DROUGHT; FAMINE; HISTORICAL TRENDS; NATURE-SOCEITY RELATIONS; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RAINFALL DATA;

EID: 0030668030     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005319723995     Document Type: Article

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