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Research article
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29 Mar 2019
Research article |
| 29 Mar 2019
| 29 Mar 2019
The El Niño event of 2015–2016: climate anomalies and their impact on groundwater resources in East and Southern Africa
Seshagiri Rao Kolusu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geography, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QS, UK
Mohammad Shamsudduha
Department of Geography, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Martin C. Todd
Department of Geography, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QS, UK
Richard G. Taylor
Department of Geography, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
David Seddon
Department of Geography, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Japhet J. Kashaigili
Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
Girma Y. Ebrahim
International Water Management Institute, Pretoria, South Africa
Mark O. Cuthbert
Department of Geography, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
James P. R. Sorensen
British Geological Survey, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, UK
Karen G. Villholth
International Water Management Institute, Pretoria, South Africa
Alan M. MacDonald
British Geological Survey, The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South, Edinburgh, EH14 4AP, UK
Dave A. MacLeod
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK
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