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TI Variability and Predictability of West African Droughts: A Review on the Role of Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
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AF RODRIGUEZ-FONSECA, Belen
   MOHINO, Elsa
   MECHOSO, Carlos R.
   CAMINADE, Cyril
   BIASUTTI, Michela
   GAETANI, Marco
   GARCIA-SERRANO, J.
   VIZY, Edward K.
   COOK, Kerry
   XUE, Yongkang
   POLO, Irene
   LOSADA, Teresa
   DRUYAN, Leonard
   FONTAINE, Bernard
   BADER, Juergen
   DOBLAS-REYES, Francisco J.
   GODDARD, Lisa
   JANICOT, Serge
   ARRIBAS, Alberto
   LAU, William
   COLMAN, Andrew
   VELLINGA, M.
   ROWELL, David P.
   KUCHARSKI, Fred
   VOLDOIRE, Aurore
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C1 Univ Complutense Madrid, Fac Ciencias Fis, Dept Fis Tierra Astron & Astrofis 1, E-28040 Madrid, Spain.
   CSIC, Inst Geociencias, Madrid, Spain.
   Univ Complutense Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain.
   Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Los Angeles, CA USA.
   Univ Liverpool, Inst Infect & Global Hlth, Sch Environm Sci, Liverpool L69 3BX, Merseyside, England.
   Columbia Univ, Lamont Doherty Earth Observ, New York, NY USA.
   CNR, Ist Biometeorol, Rome, Italy.
   Inst Catala Ciencies Clima, Barcelona, Spain.
   Univ Texas Austin, Jackson Sch Geosci, Dept Geol Sci, Austin, TX USA.
   Univ Reading, Dept Meteorol, NCAS Climate, Reading, Berks, England.
   Univ Castilla La Mancha, Inst Ciencias Ambientales, Toledo, Spain.
   Columbia Univ, Ctr Climate Syst Res, New York, NY USA.
   NASA, Goddard Inst Space Studies, New York, NY 10025 USA.
   Univ Bourgogne, CNRS, Ctr Rech Climatol, Dijon, France.
   Max Planck Inst Meteorol, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany.
   Inst Catalana Recerca & Estudis Avancats, Barcelona, Spain.
   Columbia Univ, Int Res Inst Climate & Soc, New York, NY USA.
   UPMC, LOCEAN IPSL, IRD, Paris, France.
   Met Off Hadley Ctr, Exeter, Devon, England.
   NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Atmospheres Lab, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA.
   Abdus Salam Int Ctr Theoret Phys, Trieste, Italy.
   CNRS, Meteo France, Grp Etud Atmosphere Meteorol, Ctr Natl Rech Meteorol, Toulouse, France.
C2 UNIV COMPLUTENSE MADRID, SPAIN
   CSIC, SPAIN
   UNIV COMPLUTENSE MADRID, SPAIN
   UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES, USA
   UNIV LIVERPOOL, UK
   UNIV COLUMBIA, USA
   CNR, ITALY
   INST CATALA CIENCIES CLIMA (IC3), SPAIN
   UNIV TEXAS AUSTIN, USA
   UNIV READING, UK
   UNIV CASTILLA LA MANCHA, SPAIN
   UNIV COLUMBIA, USA
   NASA, USA
   UNIV BOURGOGNE, FRANCE
   MAX PLANCK INST METEOROL, GERMANY
   ICREA, SPAIN
   UNIV COLUMBIA, USA
   UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE
   MET OFF, UK
   NASA, USA
   ICTP, ITALY
   CNRS, FRANCE
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TC 125
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00624/73564/73013.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR PIRATA
AB The Sahel experienced a severe drought during the 1970s and 1980s after wet periods in the 1950s and 1960s. Although rainfall partially recovered since the 1990s, the drought had devastating impacts on society. Most studies agree that this dry period resulted primarily from remote effects of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies amplified by local land surface-atmosphere interactions. This paper reviews advances made during the last decade to better understand the impact of global SST variability on West African rainfall at interannual to decadal time scales. At interannual time scales, a warming of the equatorial Atlantic and Pacific/Indian Oceans results in rainfall reduction over the Sahel, and positive SST anomalies over the Mediterranean Sea tend to be associated with increased rainfall. At decadal time scales, warming over the tropics leads to drought over the Sahel, whereas warming over the North Atlantic promotes increased rainfall. Prediction systems have evolved from seasonal to decadal forecasting. The agreement among future projections has improved from CMIP3 to CMIP5, with a general tendency for slightly wetter conditions over the central part of the Sahel, drier conditions over the western part, and a delay in the monsoon onset. The role of the Indian Ocean, the stationarity of teleconnections, the determination of the leader ocean basin in driving decadal variability, the anthropogenic role, the reduction of the model rainfall spread, and the improvement of some model components are among the most important remaining questions that continue to be the focus of current international projects. 
PY 2015
PD MAY
SO Journal Of Climate
SN 0894-8755
PU Amer Meteorological Soc
VL 28
IS 10
UT 000354370100009
BP 4034
EP 4060
DI 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00130.1
ID 73564
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