Sahel rainfall and worldwide sea temperatures, 1901–85
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The long-term downward trend in Sahelian summer rainfall is a unique feature in recent tropical fluctuations and has been associated with SST trends in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
“Such a long-term downward trend in Sahelian summer rainfall is a unique feature in recent tropical fluctuations, and it has been associated with SST trends in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans (Fol-land et al. 1986;Shinoda and Kawamura 1994;Bader and Latif 2003;Giannini et al. 2003;Lu and Delworth 2005).”
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- Authors
- Folland, C. K., Palmer, T. N., & Parker, D. E.
- Affiliations
- Met Office (GB)
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1986-04
- Volume
- 320
- Issue
- 6063
- Pages
- 602-607
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2050766636
- Cited by
- 1,147
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 25.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Keywords
- Sahel rainfall, sea surface temperature anomalies, global sea surface temperature, El Niño, tropical circulation, summer rainfall variability
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