Large Scale Features Affecting Ethiopian Rainfall

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 43, Issue , 2011, Pages 13-50

  Diro, Gulilat Tefera ^a,b   Grimes, D I F ^b   Black, E ^b  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Composite analysis; Ethiopia; Jets; Large scale features; Oceanic circulation; QBO; Rainfall; SST

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923319404     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3842-5_2     Document Type: Chapter

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