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Dominant role of greenhouse-gas forcing in the recovery of Sahel rainfall.

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Authors: Dong, B., & Sutton, R.
Affiliations: National Centre for Atmospheric Science (GB)
Corresponding author: Dong, Buwen
Sutton, Rowan
ORCID: Dong, Buwen
Sutton, Rowan
Venue: Nature Climate Change
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2015-06-01
Volume: 5
Issue: 8
Pages: 757-760
ISSN: 1758-678X (ISSN-L)
1758-6798
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2664
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: green
centaur.reading.ac.uk
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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