The impacts of ENSO in Africa

Climate Change and Africa

Volumn 9780521836340, Issue , 2005, Pages 218-230

  Obasi, Godwin O P ^a  

^a WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FLOODS; NICKEL; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ENSO EVENTS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; EVOLUTION PATTERNS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84857446487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511535864.030     Document Type: Chapter

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