A recent and abrupt decline in the East African long rains

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Geophysical Research Letters

• Publication date

  2012-01-01

• Fields of study

  Geology, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1029/2011GL050337
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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