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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Rain and rainfall"”.
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Mechanisms of inter-annual rainfall variability over tropical highlands of Africa and its predictability potential
Modes of climate variability over tropical Africa and adjacent Atlantic and Indian Oceans are investigated using continental monthly averages of gridded rainfall and temperature and marine environmental data, which consists of monthly averages of sea surface temperature, sea level pressure and …
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Satellite derived rainfall over tropical Africa : its pattern variability and calibration
The major spatial and temporal structure of rainfall and zonal wind at seasonal and intra-seasonal time-scales over tropical Africa are identified by principal component analysis. Pentad CMAP rainfall and NCEP 700hPa zonal wind for the period 1980-2000 were used. Wavelet analysis is used to filter …
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Impacts of Congo Convection on Tropical Africa's circulation, rainfall and resources
… as an index. It is then related to the regional and global circulation. OLR indices for the Congo area 15°-30°E, 10°S-5°N are evaluated for JAS and MAM seasons and associated circulation regimes are considered. Seasonal OLR over the Congo for the period 1974-2000 is correlated with selected …
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Essays in Climatic Extremes, Agriculture and Natural Resources
… this dissertation attempts to add to our understanding of two aspects of the climate change issue, using tools from two different disciplines: Economics and Hydro-Climatology, for the case of India. The two aspects addressed are :( 1) understanding and summarizing changes in the climate system …