Impacts of the Sahel-Sahara Interface Reforestation on West African Climate: Intraseasonal Variability and Extreme Precipitation Events
This study aims to evaluate the impacts of the Sahel-Sahara interface reforestation on spatiotemporal variability of the summer rainfall and extreme precipitation events over West Africa using the RegCM4 model. The land surface scheme of RegCM4 was modified to incorporate an East-West reforested zon...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2016-01-01
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Series: | Advances in Meteorology |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3262451 |