Dominant role of greenhouse-gas forcing in the recovery of Sahel rainfall.
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Rainfall in the Sahel has increased since the 1980s, but has not recovered to pre-drought levels.
“Rainfall in the Sahel has increased since the 1980s, but has not recovered to pre-drought levels (Nicholson et al., 2000;Dong and Sutton, 2015;Berntell et al., 2018).”
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The Figure S4 caption (page unavailable) compares a Sahel drought period with a later 'recent wetter period,' supporting an increase in rainfall. It says the observed 1951–1963 precipitation value is shown, but the text does not state whether recent rainfall remained below that pre-drought level. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Dong, B., & Sutton, R.
- Affiliations
- National Centre for Atmospheric Science (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Dong, Buwen
- Sutton, Rowan
- Venue
- Nature Climate Change
- Published
- 2015-06-01
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 757-760
- ISSN
- 1758-678X (ISSN-L)
- 1758-6798
- OpenAlex
- W1804902297
- Cited by
- 229
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 37 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 28 · 2017: 27 · 2016: 22 · 2015: 5
- FWCI
- 22.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Climate Change (publishedVersion)
- CentAUR (University of Reading) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- European Commission (2007–2013, FP7 2007-2013, FP7/2007, 607085)
- Natural Environment Research Council (NE/I006672/1, ncas10009, FP7/2007-2013)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Keywords
- greenhouse gas forcing, West African monsoon, Sahel drought, sea surface temperature, anthropogenic aerosol forcing, aerosol precursor emissions, multidecadal variability, climate change attribution, Sahel
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