The value of large-scale climate variables in climate change assessment: The case of Botswana's rainfall

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 50-52, Issue , 2012, Pages 64-71

  Kenabatho, P K ^a   Parida, B P ^a   Moalafhi, D B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Botswana; Climate change; ENSO; Rainfall; Reanalysis; Semi arid

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENTS; BOTSWANA; CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE VARIABLES; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSO; ENSO INDICES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY DATA; RAINFALL MODELS; RAINFALL PATTERNS; RAINFALL REGIME; RAINFALL SERIES; REANALYSIS; SEMI ARID; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL COVERAGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DIGITAL STORAGE; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

RAIN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA QUALITY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIAL DATA;

BOTSWANA;

EID: 84868460633     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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