BACKGROUND The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
was established in 1992 to pursue the “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations at a …

Globally, thermodynamics explains an increase in atmospheric water vapor with warming of
around 7%/° C near to the surface. In contrast, global precipitation and evaporation are …

This Report responds to the invitation for IPCC?... to provide a Special Report in 2018 on the
impacts of global warming of 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels and related global …

Achieving food security goals in West Africa will depend on the capacity of the agricultural
sector to feed the rapidly growing population and to moderate the adverse impacts of climate …

Monsoons Climate Change Assessment in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume 102 Issue 1 (2021) Jump to Content Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo JOURNALS …

African society is particularly vulnerable to climate change. The representation of convection
in climate models has so far restricted our ability to accurately simulate African weather …

Tipping elements are components of the Earth system which may respond nonlinearly to
anthropogenic climate change by transitioning toward substantially different long‐term …

We employ a large ensemble of Regional Climate Models (RCMs) from the COordinated
Regional-climate Downscaling EXperiment to explore two questions:(1) what can we know …

Abstract Changes in the seasonality of precipitation over Africa have high potential for
detrimental socioeconomic impacts due to high societal dependence upon seasonal rainfall …

Sahel rainfall is dynamically linked to the global Hadley cell and to the regional monsoon
circulation. It is therefore susceptible to forcings from remote oceans and regional land alike …