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Change of rainfall distribution and circulation patterns over Southern Africa in summer

✍ Scribed by Taljaard, J. J.

Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year: 1986
Weight: 968 KB
Volume: 6
Category: Article
ISSN: 2314-6214
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3370060602

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✦ Synopsis

The change of mean monthly rainfall, expressed as a percentage of mean annual rainfall, is described for the region south of 17"s during the course of summer. The areas with most rapidly increasing rainfall during monthly intervals are found to follow an almost circular path, starting out along the east coast and the adjacent interior in September and then being successively displaced to Zimbabwe, northern Botswana and northern South West AfricafNamibia, central and southern South West AfricaINamibia and ending in the central Cape Province in March. Several features of the atmospheric circulation and humidity are suggested and described as being partly responsible for the changing rainfall distribution. KEY WORDS Mean monthly percentage rainfall Changing distribution of rainfall Atmospheric circulation patterns Hodographs Intertropical Convergence Zone Inter-ocean trough Heat low Botswana trough Change of sea-level pressure distribution Change of 850 and 500 hPa contour fields

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