Flood-producing cloud bands over the Kalahari Desert

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 367-378

  Jury, Mark R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; CLOUD; FLOODING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

KALAHARI DESERT; NAMIBIA;

EID: 78249233245     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-010-0259-x     Document Type: Article

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