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Observed trends in daily extreme temperature indices (percentiles) over the Western and Eastern Cape of South Africa for the period 1960 to 2005

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-55). / This thesis has investigated changes in the frequency of extreme cold and hot tails in the probability distributions (percentile indices) of minimum and maximum temperature events over the Western Cape and Eastern Cape for the period 1960-2005. The focus was to determine whether the changes in hot and cold tails (extreme tails) showed any trends or variability. The data used in this thesis are from 12 high quality observing weather stations over the two regions.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/6490
Date January 2007
CreatorsMamakoko, Thebe
ContributorsReason, Chris
PublisherUniversity of Cape Town, Faculty of Science, Department of Oceanography
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMaster Thesis, Masters, MSc
Formatapplication/pdf

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