Intra-seasonal rainfall characteristics and their importance to the seasonal prediction problem

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1033-1048

  Tennant, Warren J ^a,b   Hewitson, Bruce C ^b  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Analysis; Cluster; General circulation; Long range forecasting; Quintile; Rainfall; Self organizing map; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

RAIN; WIND;

SUMMER SEASON;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANOMALY; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0036647110     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.778     Document Type: Article

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