East African rainfall anomaly patterns in association with El Niño/Southern Oscillation

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 257-268

  Ntale, Henry K ^a   Gan, Thian Yew ^b  

^a Water Resources Management Dept   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DATA REDUCTION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; RAIN; VECTORS;

RAINFALL ANOMALIES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANOMALY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

VICTORIA;

EID: 3242697087     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2004)9:4(257)     Document Type: Article

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