Composite meteorological structure of flood events over the eastern mountains of South Africa

Water SA

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 357-363

  Hargraves, Richard ^a   Jury, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD EVENT; MOISTURE; RAINFALL; SUBTROPICAL LOW;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0031464624     PISSN: 03784738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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