Scientific Challenges and the Importance of Weather Prediction in Nigeria

Scientific Challenges and the Importance of Weather Prediction in Nigeria

A physical scientist involved in a lecture of this type faces two important challenges. The first is how to keep the audience awake and the second is how to express in words ideas that he normally would have expressed by mathematical expressions and equations. How is the understanding and the predic...

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Main Author:	Balogun, Ekundayo E.
Format:	Lecture
Language:	English
Published:	Obafemi Awolowo University Press 2013
Subjects:	Weather of Nigeria Climate of Nigeria Inter-Tropical discontinuity South West Monsoon of West Africa African Easterly Jet Tropical Easterly Jet Atmospheric teleconnections on Tropical African environment Ocean influences on Tropical African environment Weather forecasting Water resources Science of Meteorology Land slides Erosion Moisture flux convergence Temperature of the oceans Sub-tropical high pressure belts Non-Visible Weather events Droughts Desertification Harmattan haze Monsoon rains Thunder and lightning West Africa squall line system Local showers
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