Diagnosing the droughts and floods in equatorial east Africa during boreal autumn 2005-08

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 813-817

  Hastenrath, Stefan ^a   Polzin, Dierk ^a   Mutai, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b KENYA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EAST AFRICA; INDIAN OCEAN; SURFACE MANIFESTATIONS; VERTICAL CIRCULATION;

FLOODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN;

DROUGHT;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; AUTUMN; DROUGHT; FLOOD; RAINFALL; WESTERLY;

EAST AFRICA;

EID: 77952251852     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3094.1     Document Type: Article

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