- Abstract:
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Afull understanding of the causes of the severe drought seen in the Sahel in the latter part of the twentiethcentury remains elusive some 25 yr after the height of the event. Previous studies have suggested that this drying trend may be explained by either decadal modes of natural variability or by human-driven emissions (primarily aerosols), but these studies lacked a sufficiently large number of models to attribute one cause over the other. In this paper, signatures of both aerosol and gree...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Journal:
- JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
- Volume:
- 24
- Issue:
- 19
- Pages:
- 4999-5014
- Publication date:
- 2011-10-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1520-0442
- ISSN:
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0894-8755
- URN:
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uuid:73a2628c-6da3-4801-84c6-946caaa77953
- Source identifiers:
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198996
- Local pid:
- pubs:198996
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Copyright date:
- 2011
Journal article
Sensitivity of Twentieth-Century Sahel Rainfall to Sulfate Aerosol and CO2 Forcing
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