The West African Sahel is well known for the severe droughts that ravaged the region in the
1970s and 1980s. Meteorological research on the region has flourished during the last …

The objective of this paper is to synthesize the large literature recording changing patterns of
precipitation in the observed data, thus indicating that climate change is already a reality …

The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied
Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina …

Using the comprehensively quality-controlled Meteorological Office Historical Sea Surface
Temperature data set (MOHSST) 1, 2 we show for the first time that persistently wet and dry …

Empirical orthogonal functions (E0Fs) and composite analyses are used to investigate the
development of sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly patterns over the tropical Atlantic …

Using a dynamically motivated analysis of observations, and an intermediate-level coupled
model, the interannual variability within the equatorial Atlantic is studied. It is found that a …

The introduction of permutation tests by RA Fisher relaxed the paramet ric structure
requirement of a test statistic. For example, the structure of the test statistic is no longer …

Climatic and environmental changes in Africa during the last 2 centuries have been
examined, using both systematic rainfall records and proxy information concerning lakes …

Year-to-year fluctuations of summer monsoon (June–September) rainfall of India are studied
in relation to planetary and regional scale features. Anomalous epochs in the monsoon …

Around 1500 AD, an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World.
That act set in motion the remarkable saga of one of the world's most influential crops. This …