Exploratory long-range models to estimate summer climate variability over southern Africa

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1892-1899

  Jury, Mark R ^a   Mulenga, Henry M ^b   Mason, Simon J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

^b Zambia Meteorological Department   (Zambia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) PHENOMENON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; RAINFALL;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0032711387     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<1892:ELRMTE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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