Oceanic forcing of the late 20th century Sahel drought
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Oceanic forcing of the late 20th century Sahel drought
[1] The Sahel region of Africa underwent a pronounced interdecadal drying trend in the latter half of the 20th century. In order to investigate this drying trend, several ensembles of numerical experiments are conducted using a recently developed atmospheric general circulation model (AM2, developed at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory). When the model is forced with the time series ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geophysical Research Letters
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0094-8276
DOI: 10.1029/2005gl023316