Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Twenty‐first century projections of global rainfall and sea surface temperature in the current generation of climate models indicate a delay in the seasonal cycle in response to increasing greenhouse gases, with important implications for the regional monsoons. In particular, the rainy season of the semi‐arid African Sahel is projected to start later and become shorter. The robust agreement across models on the seasonal distribution of Sahel rainfall changes stands in contrast with large uncertainty for summertime rainfall totals there.
Source: Geophysical Research Letters
DOI: 10.1029/2009gl041303
Authors: Michela Biasutti, Adam H. Sobel
Institutions: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2056441065