Role of climate in the modern condition of Lake Victoria

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 29-37

  Lehman, J T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-HYDROSPHERE INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EUTROPHICATION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LAKE WATER;

AFRICA; LAKE VICTORIA;

EID: 0032463830     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007040050049     Document Type: Article

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