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Climate and climatic variability of rainfall over eastern Africa
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REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS
Volume 55, Issue 3, Pages 590-635
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
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2017-04-29
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10.1002/2016rg000544
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