Long-term variations of annual flows of the Okavango and Zambezi Rivers

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 31, Issue 15-16, 2006, Pages 944-951

  Mazvimavi, Dominic ^a   Wolski, Piotr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Annual flows; Cyclicity; Okavango Delta; Trends

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW OF WATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL FLOWS; DELTA ECOSYSTEM; LONG-TERM VARIATIONS; MINIMUM FLOWS;

RIVERS;

CYCLICITY; INFLOW; OUTFLOW; RIVER FLOW;

AFRICA; OKAVANGO BASIN; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZAMBEZI RIVER;

EID: 33748902395     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2006.08.016     Document Type: Article

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