Drought indices and their application to East Africa

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  International Journal of Climatology

• Publication date

  2003-09-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1002/joc.931
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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