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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"rain clouds"”.
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On the role of warm rain clouds in the tropics
… retrieval algorithm has been developed for warm rain clouds using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite measurements. The algorithm uses TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) brightness temperatures that have been deconvolved to the 19-GHz field-of-view (FOV) to retrieve cloud liquid water …
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Return and Recovery: The Influence of Place on Blues Murder Ballads and Laguna Ceremony Cycles
… elders taught him is was named, “Woman Veiled In Rain Clouds.”</p> <p>R.L. Burnside’s experiences with murder and death inform this project’s reading of his unique first-person perspective in his rendition of the popular murder ballad “Stack O’Lee and Billy Lyons.” When faced with the racial …
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A living life, a living death: a study of Bessie Head's writings as a survival strategy
… survive and determined, like Makhaya in <i>When Rain Clouds Gather</i>, to establish a 'living life' in place of the 'living death that a man [sic] could be born into' (136 RC). Her preoccupations include her relationship to her absent mother, her feelings about women's sexuality, and her need …
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Hydrocolonialism, Scarcity, and Pollution: Reading for Water in African Fiction
… depict water in its diverse guises, including rain, rivers, dams, streams, mist, fog, and bodily waters and are drawn from the geographical breadth of Africa. My study focuses mainly on inland waters, and hydro-imaginaries. The thesis takes cognizance of the boundary-effacing aspect of water …
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South Asian summer monsoon variability: a modelling study with the atmospheric regional climate model HIRHAM5
… the caprices of the South Asian summer monsoon rainfall. India receives around 78 % of the annual precipitation during the June-September months, the summer monsoon season of South Asia. But, the monsoon circulation is not consistent throughout the entire summer season. Episodes of heavy …