Use of the gamma distribution to represent monthly rainfall in Africa for drought monitoring applications
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- 6 December 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Climatology
- Vol. 27 (7) , 935-944
- https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.1441
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