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Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in western central Africa, Guinea Conakry, and Zimbabwe, 1955–2006
Abstract
Understanding how extremes are changing globally, regionally, and locally is an important first step for planning appropriate adaptation measures, as changes in extremes have major impacts. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's synthesis of global extremes was not able to say anything about western central Africa, as no analysis of the region was available nor was there an adequate internationally exchanged long‐term daily data set available to use for analysis of extremes. This paper presents the first analysis of extremes in this climatically important region along with analysis of Guinea Conakry and Zimbabwe. As per many other parts of the world, the analysis shows a decrease in cold extremes and an increase in warm extremes. However, while the majority of the analyzed world has shown an increase in heavy precipitation over the last half century, central Africa showed a decrease. Furthermore, the companion analysis of Guinea Conakry and Zimbabwe showed no significant increases.
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Metadata
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- Aguilar, E., Aziz Barry, A., Brunet, M., Ekang, L., Fernandes, A., Massoukina, M., Mbah, J., Mhanda, A., do Nascimento, D. J., Peterson, T. C., Thamba Umba, O., Tomou, M., & Zhang, X.
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- Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
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- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2009-01-27
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- 114
- Issue
- D2
- ISSN
- 0148-0227 (ISSN-L)
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- W2046035648
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- 333
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 9.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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