Articles | Volume 18, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-4311-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-4311-2014
Research article
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03 Nov 2014
Research article |  | 03 Nov 2014

Simulating the connections of ENSO and the rainfall regime of East Africa and the upper Blue Nile region using a climate model of the Tropics

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

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