15-year simulation of the December to March rainfall season of the 1980s and 1990s using canonical correlation analysis (CCA)

Water SA

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 281-285

  Landman, W A ^a   Klopper, E ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE   (South Africa)

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