Extreme rainfall in the Namib Desert during late summer 2006 and influences of regional ocean variability

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1061-1070

  Muller, A ^a   Reason, C J C ^a   Fauchereau, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Namibia; Oceans

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LANDFORMS; LANTHANUM; RANDOM VARIABLES; THEOREM PROVING; WIND EFFECTS;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; ANNUAL RAINFALL; ATLANTIC; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; COASTAL STATION; CUT OFF LOW; EXTRATROPICAL; EXTREME RAINFALL; EXTREME VALUE THEORY (EVT); HEAVY RAINS; NAMIBIA; OCEAN CONDITIONS; OCEAN VARIABILITY; RETURN PERIOD; SEA-SURFACE-TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN (SIO); SYNOPTIC FEATURES; WET CONDITIONS;

RAIN;

ARID REGION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; RAINFALL; SUMMER;

AFRICA; KARAS; LUDERITZ; NAMIB DESERT; NAMIBIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 46649101089     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1603     Document Type: Article

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