Regional climate model performance in the Lake Victoria basin

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 1699-1713

  Williams, Karina ^a   Chamberlain, Jill ^b   Buontempo, Carlo ^a   Bain, Caroline ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate; Lake Victoria; Nile basin; Perturbed physics ensemble; Regional scale modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939890739     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2201-x     Document Type: Article

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