A tale of two futures: contrasting scenarios of future precipitation for West Africa from an ensemble of regional climate models

A tale of two futures: contrasting scenarios of future precipitation for West Africa from an ensemble of regional climate models

The results of a large ensemble of regional climate models lead to two contrasting but plausible scenarios for the precipitation change over West Africa, one where mean precipitation is projected to decrease significantly over the Gulf of Guinea in spring and the Sahel in summer, and the other where...

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Main Authors: Alessandro Dosio, Andrew G Turner, Alain T Tamoffo, Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla, Christopher Lennard, Richard G Jones, Laurent Terray, Grigory Nikulin, Bruce Hewitson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2020-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
West Africa
Sahel
CORDEX
regional climate models
moisture budget equation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab7fde

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab7fde

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