North African climate variability. Part 3: Resource prediction

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 51-62

  Yeshanew, A ^a   Jury, Mark R ^b  

^a National Meteorological Services Agency   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; ZONAL WIND;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH AFRICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34247188175     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-006-0262-4     Document Type: Article

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