Climatic and oceanic associations with daily rainfall extremes over southern Africa

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-108

  Williams, C J R ^a   Kniveton, D R ^a   Layberry, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extremes; PCA; Rainfall; Southern Africa; SST; Variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAIN;

RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33846532244     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1376     Document Type: Article

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