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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Main Authors: Ibrahima Diba, Moctar Camara, Alioune Badara Sarr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Advances in Meteorology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3262451