Eastern Africa exhibits bimodal rainfall consisting of long rains (March–May) and short rains
(October–December), changes in which have profound socioeconomic and environmental …

Tropospheric anthropogenic aerosols contribute the second-largest forcing to climate
change, but with high uncertainty owing to their spatio-temporal variability and complicated …

The AR5 concluded that human influence on the climate system is clear, evident from
increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, positive radiative forcing …

Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assesses
the current evidence on the physical science of climate change, evaluating knowledge …

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 …

Urbanization and industrial development are increasing rapidly. These are accompanied by
problems of population explosion, encroachment of agricultural, and construction lands …

Despite the pervasive impact of drought on human and natural systems, the large-scale
mechanisms conducive to regional drying remain poorly understood. Here we use a …

Isolating the Evolving Contributions of Anthropogenic Aerosols and Greenhouse Gases: A New
CESM1 Large Ensemble Community Resource in: Journal of Climate Volume 33 Issue 18 …

This review addresses the causes of observed climate variations across the industrial
period, from 1750 to present. It focuses on long-term changes, both in response to external …

The most pronounced warming in the historical global climate record prior to the recent
warming occurred over the first half of the 20th century and is known as the Early Twentieth …