Drought regimes in Southern Africa and how well GCMs simulate them

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 1595-1609

  Ujeneza, Eva L ^a   Abiodun, Babatunde J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Climate indices; Droughts; Global climate models; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925500783     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2325-z     Document Type: Article

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