Contributions of Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperatures to Enhanced East African Rainfall

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Journal of Climate

• Publication date

  2009-02-15

• Fields of study

  Geology, Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1175/2008JCLI2493.1
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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