Meteorological structure of the 1992/93 drought over eastern south africa from ecmwf and satellite olr analyses

South African Geographical Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 170-181

  Dube, Lawrance Themaba ^a   Jury, Mark Robart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DROUGHT; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WESTERLY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0038334108     PISSN: 03736245     EISSN: 21512418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03736245.2002.9713768     Document Type: Article

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