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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-1239-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-1239-2014
Research article
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31 Mar 2014
Research article |  | 31 Mar 2014

Droughts and floods over the upper catchment of the Blue Nile and their connections to the timing of El Niño and La Niña events

M. A. H. Zaroug, E. A. B. Eltahir, and F. Giorgi

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