The climate of tropical southern Africa during the SAFARI 2000 campaign

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 98, Issue 11-12, 2002, Pages 527-533

  Jury, Mark R ^a   Freiman, Tali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE; METEOROLOGY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0036881771     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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