Climate and climatic variability of rainfall over eastern Africa

SE Nicholson - Reviews of Geophysics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This review examines several aspects of the climate of eastern Africa. The climatic
commonality throughout the region is the frequent occurrence of drought severe enough to …

African climate change: 1900-2100

M Hulme, R Doherty, T Ngara, M New, D Lister - Climate research, 2001 - int-res.com
This paper reviews observed (1900-2000) and possible future (2000-2100) continent-wide
changes in temperature and rainfall for Africa. For the historic period we draw upon a new …

Precipitation trends determine future occurrences of compound hot–dry events

E Bevacqua, G Zappa, F Lehner… - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
Compound hot–dry events—co-occurring hot and dry extremes—frequently cause damages
to human and natural systems, often exceeding separate impacts from heatwaves and …

Over 5,000 years of ensemble future climate simulations by 60-km global and 20-km regional atmospheric models

R Mizuta, A Murata, M Ishii, H Shiogama… - Bulletin of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
An unprecedentedly large ensemble of climate simulations with a 60-km atmospheric
general circulation model and dynamical downscaling with a 20-km regional climate model …

[책][B] The normalized difference vegetation index

N Pettorelli - 2013 - books.google.com
There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and
conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change 2001: The scientific basis

JT Houghton - 2001 - billhowell.ca
This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …

The potential to narrow uncertainty in projections of regional precipitation change

E Hawkins, R Sutton - Climate dynamics, 2011 - Springer
We separate and quantify the sources of uncertainty in projections of regional (∼ 2,500 km)
precipitation changes for the twenty-first century using the CMIP3 multi-model ensemble …

Progress during TOGA in understanding and modeling global teleconnections associated with tropical sea surface temperatures

KE Trenberth, GW Branstator, D Karoly… - Journal of …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
The primary focus of this review is tropical‐extratropical interactions and especially the
issues involved in determining the response of the extratropical atmosphere to tropical …

Climate impacts of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation

JR Knight, CK Folland, AA Scaife - Geophysical Research …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) is a near‐global scale mode of observed
multidecadal climate variability with alternating warm and cool phases over large parts of the …

Atlantic hurricanes and natural variability in 2005

KE Trenberth, DJ Shea - Geophysical research letters, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The 2005 North Atlantic hurricane season (1 June to 30 November) was the most active on
record by several measures, surpassing the very active season of 2004 and causing an …