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Jan 3, 2022 · The idea for Africa’s Great Green Wall came in the 1970s and ’80s, when the once-fertile Sahel began to turn barren and dry as a result of changing climate and land use.
Mar 20, 2020 · The hydroclimatic conditions of northern tropical and subtropical Africa, up to the Sahel at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, are primarily governed by the WAM. The WAM regulates the annual rainfall amount and the climatological rainfall patterns, which in the long term affect land-surface characteristics, determine the type of ...
- Francesco S.R. Pausata, Marco Gaetani, Gabriele Messori, Gabriele Messori, Alexis Berg, Danielle Mai...
- 2020
Nov 16, 2022 · The first report on this issue was presented during COP 26. “The new report on climate change-related migration in the Sahel puts a human face on the climate crisis,” said Ben Schachter, Human Rights Officer at UN Human Rights. “It focusses on the real human suffering caused by climate change as well as the inspiring resilience of the ...
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Dec 15, 2022 · The evolution of Sahel summer rainfall in the context of global warming is a severe socio-economic concern because of its widespread influences on local agriculture, water resource management, food security, infrastructure planning, and ecosystems. Based on the mid-Pliocene simulations from the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2 and the historical simulations and shared socio ...
The Sahel has a tropical semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSh). The climate is typically hot, sunny, dry and somewhat windy all year long. The Sahel's climate is similar to, but less extreme than, the climate of the Sahara desert located just to the north. The Sahel mainly receives a low to very low amount of precipitation ...
This article provides an in-depth look at all aspects of the climate of the Sahel, including the pervasive dust in the Sahelian atmosphere. Emphasis is on two aspects: West African monsoon and the region’s rainfall regime. This includes an overview of the prevailing atmospheric circulation at the surface and aloft and the relationship between ...
Jul 24, 2015 · The Sahel is the semi-arid southern shore of the Saharan 'sea of sand'. It holds a special place in climate science, because of the long-standing debate on the causes of persistent drought in the ...
