Browsing Faculty of Science & Technology (FST) by Subject "East Africa"
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Application of geophysics in the search for metallic ores in Western Kenya
(Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, 1984) -
Application of the NCAR regional climate model to eastern Africa 1. Simulation of the short rains of 1988
(Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi, 1999)The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Regional Climate Model (RegCM2) is employed to investigate the physical mechanisms that govern the October-December rains over eastern Africa. The model employs the ... -
Beach erosion: case studies on the East African coast
(1992-10)Marine erosion of late Holocene beach deposits is a common problem 011 the equatorial coasts of the western Indian Ocean, damaging or threatening tourism-related investment and communication infrastructure. The problem ... -
The changing conceptions and focus of health research in East Africa
(Chemistry, 2006-06)Perceptions in health research are a product of the circumstances within the society, where the research activities are situated. In East Africa there has been a change in conceptualization over a period of time from an ... -
Human Evolution and Migration in a Variable Environment: The Amplifier Lakes of East Africa
(2013-06-23)The development of the Cenozoic East African Rift System (EARS) profoundly re-shaped the landscape and significantly increased the amplitude of short-term environmental response to climate variation. In particular, the ... -
Indigenous Snake Bite Remedies of the Luo of Western Kenya
(Society of EthnobiologyCatholic University of Eastern AfricaUniversity of Nairobi, Kenya, 2005)Medicinal plants have been overtaken in the treatment of snake bites by serum therapy and are rarely considered efficacious remedies in biomedicine. Nevertheless, rural inhabitants rely on plant medical material and the ... -
Quasi-periodic patterns in the East African rainfall records
(Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi, 1982)In this study East African rainfall records within the period 1922-80 were subjected to spectral analysis in order to examine whether the fluctuations in rainfall during 1922-80 exhibited any periodic or quasi-periodic ... -
Recent Trends of Minimum and Maximum Surface Temperatures over Eastern Africa
(Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi, 2000-08)This study investigated recent trends in the mean surface minimum and maximum air temperatures over eastern Africa by use of both graphical and statistical techniques. Daily records for 71 stations for the period \939-92 were ... -
Spatial coherence and potential predictability assessment of intraseasonal statistics of wet and dry spells over Equatorial Eastern Africa
(Royal Meteorological SocietyMeteorology, 2012)The aim of this study was to derive components of the intraseasonal rainfall variations from the daily rainfall in the Equatorial Eastern Africa region and assess their spatial coherence, a pointer to their potential ... -
Stochastic modelling of regional annual rainfall anomalies in East Africa
(Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi, 1986)ARIMA (p, d, q) models were fitted to areal annual rainfall of two homogeneous regions in East Africa with rainfall records extending between the period 1922-80. The areal estimates of the regional rainfall were derived ... -
Teleconnection between Seasonal Rainfall over East Africa and Global Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
(Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi, 1988)In this study, global sea surface temperature anomalies within ±300 latitudes of the equator were correlated with the time series of the major rotated principal component analysis (RPCA) modes of the seasonal rainfall ... -
Temporal fluctuations of seasonal rainfall patterns in East Africa
(Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi, 1984)In order to investigate temporal fluctuations in the seasonal rainfall over East Africa, monthly rainfall records from about 100 stations during" the period 1931 -75 were subjected to harmonic analysis on the yearly ...