Heavy daily-rainfall characteristics over the gauteng province

Water SA

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 627-638

  Dyson, Liesl L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Climatology of heavy rainfall; Daily rainfall; Gauteng; Summer rainfall; Weather forecasting; Widespread heavy rainfall

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

DAILY RAINFALL; GAUTENG; HEAVY RAINFALL; MONTHLY AVERAGE RAINFALLS; RAINFALL EVENT; SEASONAL RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER RAINFALL;

RAIN;

CLIMATOLOGY; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER STATION;

GAUTENG; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 77954227258     PISSN: 03784738     EISSN: 18167950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/wsa.v35i5.49188     Document Type: Article

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