African climate change: 1900-2100

Climate Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2 SPECIAL 8, 2001, Pages 145-168

  Hulme, Mike ^a   Doherty, Ruth ^b   Ngara, Todd ^c   New, Mark ^d   Lister, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Climate Change Office   (Zimbabwe)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African climate; Climate modelling; Climate scenarios; Land cover changes; Rainfall variability; Seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

AFRICA;

EID: 0035880377     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr017145     Document Type: Article

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