'Splendid rains have fallen': links between El Niño and rainfall variability in the Kalahari, 1840-1900

This study uses a range of published and unpublished historical documentary sources to explore the nature of rainfall variability in the Kalahari Desert and adjacent hardveld regions of central southern Africa during the seventeen Pacific El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) episodes that occurred be...

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Published in:	Climatic change Vol. 86; no. 3-4; pp. 257 - 290
Main Authors:	Nash, David J, Endfield, Georgina H
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands 01-02-2008 Springer Netherlands Springer Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	19th century 20th century Annual variations Atmospheric Sciences Climate change Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts Climatology. Bioclimatology. Climate change Data analysis Deserts Drought Earth and Environmental Science Earth Sciences Earth, ocean, space El Nino Exact sciences and technology External geophysics Floods History Meteorology Ocean currents Precipitation Rain Rainfall Seasonal distribution Southern Oscillation Summer Water in the atmosphere (humidity, clouds, evaporation, precipitation) Kalahari Desert Southern Africa Africa Botswana, Kalahari Botswana, Kalahari Desert IS, Pacific Warm Event Documentary Data Austral Summer Rainfall Variability Okavango Delta time series analysis Teleconnection rainfall atmospheric precipitation Century 19th climate variability Long term variation cartography Hydroclimatology Rainfall rate Dynamical climatology El Nino drought Southern oscillation spatial variations
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