East African climate variability on different time scales : the Suguta Valley in the African-Asian Monsoon Domain

Motivation | Societal and economic needs of East Africa rely entirely on the availability of water, which is governed by the regular onset and retreat of the rainy seasons. Fluctuations in the amounts of rainfall has tremendous impact causing widespread famine, disease outbreaks and human migrations...

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Main Author: Junginger, Annett
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Universität Potsdam 2011
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Online Access:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-56834
http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5683/