Detection and Attribution of Twentieth-Century Northern and Southern African Rainfall Change

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Journal of Climate

• Publication date

  2006-08-15

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1175/JCLI3842.1
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