Historical and modern fluctuations of Lakes Tanganyika and Rukwa and their relationship to rainfall variability

Climatic Change

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-71

  Nicholson, Sharon E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; RAINFALL;

AFRICA;

EID: 0033021628     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005424619718     Document Type: Article

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