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 …

The Indian Ocean Dipole in a warming world

G Wang, W Cai, A Santoso, N Abram, B Ng… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Abstract The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) strongly affects the climate of the Indo-Pacific.
Observations suggest a shift towards stronger and earlier positive IOD (pIOD) events …

Future global climate: scenario-based projections and near-term information

JY Lee, J Marotzke, G Bala, L Cao, S Corti, JP Dunne… - 2021‏ - ora.ox.ac.uk
This chapter assesses simulations of future global climate change, spanning time horizons
from the near term (2021–2040), mid-term (2041–2060), and long term (2081–2100) out to …

Human influence on the climate system (Chapter 3)

V Eyring, NP Gillett, KM Achuta Rao, R Barimalala… - 2021‏ - pure.iiasa.ac.at
The AR5 concluded that human influence on the climate system is clear, evident from
increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, positive radiative forcing …

Towards a comprehensive look at global drivers of novel extreme wildfire events

A Duane, M Castellnou, L Brotons - Climatic Change, 2021‏ - Springer
Extreme wildfire events in recent years are shaking our established knowledge of how fire
regimes respond to climate variables and how societies need to react to fire impacts. Albeit …

Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013

WM Jolly, MA Cochrane, PH Freeborn… - Nature …, 2015‏ - nature.com
Climate strongly influences global wildfire activity, and recent wildfire surges may signal fire
weather-induced pyrogeographic shifts. Here we use three daily global climate data sets …

Coupling of Indo-Pacific climate variability over the last millennium

NJ Abram, NM Wright, B Ellis, BC Dixon, JB Wurtzel… - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
Abstract The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) affects climate and rainfall across the world, and
most severely in nations surrounding the Indian Ocean,,–. The frequency and intensity of …

Droughts, wildfires, and forest carbon cycling: A pantropical synthesis

PM Brando, L Paolucci, CC Ummenhofer… - Annual Review of …, 2019‏ - annualreviews.org
Tropical woody plants store∼ 230 petagrams of carbon (PgC) in their aboveground living
biomass. This review suggests that these stocks are currently growing in primary forests at …

Future Indian ocean warming patterns

S Sharma, KJ Ha, R Yamaguchi, KB Rodgers… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Most future projections conducted with coupled general circulation models simulate a non-
uniform Indian Ocean warming, with warming hotspots occurring in the Arabian Sea (AS) …

The curious case of Indian Ocean warming

MK Roxy, K Ritika, P Terray, S Masson - Journal of Climate, 2014‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Recent studies have pointed out an increased warming over the Indian Ocean warm pool
(the central-eastern Indian Ocean characterized by sea surface temperatures greater than …