Tropical systems from the southwest Indian Ocean making landfall over the Limpopo River Bassouthern Africa: A historical perspective

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1018-1032

  Malherbe, J ^a,b   Engelbrecht, F A ^c   Landman, W A ^b,c   Engelbrecht, C J ^a  

^a Institute for Soil Climate and Water   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Closed low tracking; Fourier analysis; Landfall; Rainfall cyclicity; Southern Africa; Tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; CYCLICITY; HEAVY RAINFALL; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INDIAN OCEAN; LANDFALL; LANDFALLING; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUMMER RAINFALL; SURFACE CONDITIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL SYSTEMS; ZIMBABWE;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; STORMS; TROPICS;

RAIN;

CYCLICITY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; STORM; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); LIMPOPO RIVER; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84861979059     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2320     Document Type: Article

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