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Abstract The 1982 value of a sub‐Saharan rainfall index previously published for 1941‐1981 is given. This establishes that the drought which commenced in 1968 and persisted very strongly throughout the 1970s and 1980‐1981 continued into 1982. which was the third driest year of the period 1968‐1982, and also appears to have received substantially less rainfall than the drought years of the 1940s. Several meteorological and socioeconomic implications of this situation are discussed. The paper also provides a recomputation of the entire 1941‐1982 index time series that was permitted by the forward extension of the database since the original calculation for 1941‐1974.
Peter Lamb (Sat,) studied this question.