Recent drought and precipitation tendencies in Ethiopia

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 535-551

  Viste, Ellen ^a   Korecha, Diriba ^a,b   Sorteberg, Asgeir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b National Meteorological Services Agency   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL PATTERN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ETHIOPIA; HORN OF AFRICA;

EID: 84876433256     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0746-3     Document Type: Article

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