Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

PI Palmer, CM Wainwright, B Dong… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Eastern Africa exhibits bimodal rainfall consisting of long rains (March–May) and short rains
(October–December), changes in which have profound socioeconomic and environmental …

Uniting remote sensing, crop modelling and economics for agricultural risk management

E Benami, Z **, MR Carter, A Ghosh… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
The increasing availability of satellite data at higher spatial, temporal and spectral
resolutions is enabling new applications in agriculture and economic development …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas

DN Karger, O Conrad, J Böhner, T Kawohl, H Kreft… - Scientific data, 2017 - nature.com
High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in
environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present the CHELSA (Climatologies at …

Rapid changes to global river suspended sediment flux by humans

EN Dethier, CE Renshaw, FJ Magilligan - Science, 2022 - science.org
Rivers support indispensable ecological functions and human health and infrastructure. Yet
limited river sampling hinders our understanding of consequential changes to river systems …

Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought

AP Williams, ER Cook, JE Smerdon, BI Cook… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Severe and persistent 21st-century drought in southwestern North America (SWNA)
motivates comparisons to medieval megadroughts and questions about the role of …

An evaluation of ERA5 precipitation for climate monitoring

DA Lavers, A Simmons, F Vamborg… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A key aim of climate monitoring is to place the current conditions of climate variables, such
as surface air temperature and precipitation, in their historical context. In Europe, a leading …

An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel

M Brandt, CJ Tucker, A Kariryaa, K Rasmussen, C Abel… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A large proportion of dryland trees and shrubs (hereafter referred to collectively as trees)
grow in isolation, without canopy closure. These non-forest trees have a crucial role in …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km2 of drylands towards desertification

AL Burrell, JP Evans, MG De Kauwe - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Drylands cover 41% of the earth's land surface and include 45% of the world's agricultural
land. These regions are among the most vulnerable ecosystems to anthropogenic climate …

[HTML][HTML] MSWEP V2 global 3-hourly 0.1 precipitation: methodology and quantitative assessment

HE Beck, EF Wood, M Pan, CK Fisher… - Bulletin of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
MSWEP V2 Global 3-Hourly 0.1 Precipitation: Methodology and Quantitative Assessment in:
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 100 Issue 3 (2019) Jump to …