Wet periods along the East Africa Coast and the extreme wet spell event of October 1997 Raphaël Okoola, Pierre Camberlin, Joseph Ininda To cite this version: Raphaël Okoola, Pierre Camberlin, Joseph Ininda. Wet periods along the East Africa Coast and the extreme wet spell event of October 1997. Journal of the Kenya Meteorological Society, 2008, 2 (1), pp.67-83. hal-00320637 HAL Id: hal-00320637 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00320637 Submitted on 3 Jun 2009 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Wet periods along the East Africa Coast and the extreme wet spell event of October 1997 R. E. Okoola Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi, Kenya P. Camberlin Centre de Recherches de Climatologie, Université de Bourgogne/CNRS, Dijon, France J. M. Ininda Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi, Kenya Corresponding author Dr Pierre Camberlin Centre de Recherches de Climatologie, Université de Bourgogne, Sciences Gabriel 6 Bd Gabriel, 21000 DIJON, FRANCE E-mail :
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