A coupled regional climate model for the Lake Victoria Basin of East Africa

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-75

  Song, Yi ^a   Semazzi, Fredrick H M ^a   Xie, Lian ^a   Ogallo, Laban J ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Eastern Africa; Lake Victoria; POM; RegCM2; Regional climate modelling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RAIN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS; WIND;

LAKE-LAND BREEZE PHENOMENON; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-HYDROSPHERE INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE VICTORIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 1142293891     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.983     Document Type: Article

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