Hazardous thunderstorm intensification over Lake Victoria

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Thiery, Wim ^a,b   Davin, Edouard L ^b   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^b   Bedka, Kristopher ^c   Lhermitte, Stef ^a,d   Van Lipzig, Nicole P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONVERGENCE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); THUNDERSTORM;

ADVECTION; AFRICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN; LAKE; MOISTURE; NIGHT; PRECIPITATION;

EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE VICTORIA;

EID: 84988681736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12786     Document Type: Article

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