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Jul 5, 2017 · Once the temperature approaches the threshold, the rainfall regime could shift within just a few years.”. Africa’s Sahel region could suddenly get far more rainfall as global warming proceeds, says a new study. Here, farmers in Mali, one of the countries potentially affected, harvest okra.
Apr 6, 2021 · Like GMST, the central Sahel precipitation does not increase after 2050–2060, materializing the ending influence of the fast response (Fig. 4b).
- Paul-Arthur Monerie, Benjamin Pohl, Marco Gaetani
- 2021
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Feb 2, 2021 · Studies have reported an upward trend in annual rainfall in the Sahel since the 1970's and 1980's, but farmers have questioned whether vegetation and crop conditions have improved. An article published in Environmental Research Letters looks into this more closely.
Jun 11, 2013 · The Sahel remains one of the poorest and least developed regions in the world. It’s also one of the most vulnerable to climate change and variability. One bright spot for the region is that since the mid-1980s, average rainfall has increased steadily [see this animation ].
Dec 15, 2022 · The Sahel rainfall concentrates in the Northern Hemisphere summer (June to September; Dunning et al. 2018 ). Therefore, how the Sahel summer rainfall would change in a global warming climate becomes an essential scientific and socio-economic concern.
Aug 12, 2021 · The IPCC reports that in general, in a warming world there should be an overall increase in rainfall across the Sahel. A key driver of that trend is the difference between ocean and land...
Jun 27, 2016 · 7 Citations. 6 Altmetric. Metrics. The Sahel has suffered through severe droughts but recent years have seen increased rainfall. Now research suggests warming of the Mediterranean Sea surface may...
