Climate change comes to the Sahel

Alessandra Giannini ()
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Alessandra Giannini: Alessandra Giannini is at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964-8000, USA

Nature Climate Change, 2015, vol. 5, issue 8, 720-721

Abstract: Persistent drought in the Sahel in the 1970s and 1980s was caused by subtle changes in global sea surface temperatures. Now model results show that the direct effect of increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations led to the subsequent recovery.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2739

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