Late quaternary abrupt climate change in the tropics and sub‐tropics: the continental signal of tropical hydroclimatic events (THEs)

RS Bradley, HF Diaz - Reviews of Geophysics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical hydroclimatic events, characterized by extreme regional rainfall anomalies, were a
recurrent feature of marine isotope stages 2–4 and involved some of the most abrupt and …

Modelling temperature‐precipitation pressures on African timber heritage

J Richards, P Brimblecombe… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate parameters can be refined for use in a heritage context to capture climate‐based
deterioration processes occurring on buildings and sites. The Scheffer index, which …

Valley formation aridifies East Africa and elevates Congo Basin rainfall

C Munday, N Savage, RG Jones, R Washington - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
East African aridification during the past 8 million years is frequently invoked as a driver of
large-scale shifts in vegetation and the evolution of new animal lineages, including …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of rainfall biases in two CORDEX-CORE regional climate models at rainfall peaks over central equatorial Africa

AT Tamoffo, LK Amekudzi, T Weber… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Two regional climate models (RCMs) participating in the CORDEX–Coordinated Output for
Regional Evaluations (CORDEX-CORE) project feature a dipole-type rainfall bias during …

Surface‐driven amplification of Madden–Julian oscillation circulation anomalies across East Africa and its influence on the Turkana jet

J Talib, CM Taylor, BL Harris… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In semi‐arid environments, rainfall‐driven soil moisture fluctuations exert a strong influence
on surface turbulent fluxes. Intraseasonal rainfall variability can therefore impact low‐level …

Global and regional hydrological impacts of global forest expansion

JA King, J Weber, P Lawrence, S Roe… - …, 2024 - bg.copernicus.org
Large-scale reforestation, afforestation, and forest restoration schemes have gained global
support as climate change mitigation strategies due to their significant carbon dioxide …

A drier Orinoco basin during the twenty-first century: the role of the Orinoco low-level jet

IC Correa, PA Arias, SC Vieira, JA Martínez - Climate Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
This study focuses on the analysis of the simulation of the main climatological features of the
Orinoco low-level jet (OLLJ) by a set of models included in the Sixth Phase of the Coupled …

Mechanisms of Added Value of a Coupled Global Ocean‐Regional Atmosphere Climate Model Over Central Equatorial Africa

AT Tamoffo, T Weber, W Cabos, DV Sein… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
There is an urgent need to enhance climate projections for Central Equatorial Africa (CEA),
given the region's high vulnerability to climatic hazards and its economy's heavy …

Drivers of seasonal rainfall variability over the Angolan and Namibian plateaus

CA Pereira, JP Martins, AH Fink… - International Journal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Southern Africa has been strongly affected by ongoing climate change in recent decades.
Rainfall variability is modulated by regional patterns of moisture advection and convergence …

Regionally coupled climate model ROM projects more plausible precipitation change over Central Equatorial Africa

AT Tamoffo, T Weber, D Abel, K Ziegler… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Unraveling plausible future rainfall change (ΔPr) patterns is crucial for tailoring societies'
responses to climate change‐induced hazards. This study compares rainfall projections …