Climatic change and variability in Southern Africa /
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| Author / Creator: | Tyson, P. D., 1939- |
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| Imprint: | Cape Town : Oxford University Press, 1986. |
| Description: | ix, 220 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/811862 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Changing Climate Conditions Over South Africa
- 1. A Present-Day Climatic Datum
- 2. Three Thousand Million Years of Change
- 3. Climate of the Holocene and Historical Past
- 4. The Period of Meteorological Record
- Part 2. Atmospheric Circulation Changes and the Climatic Response
- 5. The Circulation of the Atmosphere in the Southern Hemispere
- 6. Atmospheric Circulation over Southern Africa
- 7. Wet and Dry Spells: Days to Decades
- 8. The Walker Circulation and Southern African Rainfall
- 9. Momentum Transfer, Cloud Bands and Recent Wet and Dry Spells
- 10. Past, Present, and Future
