From dry to wet: Rainfall might abruptly increase in Africa's Sahel
Thursday, July 6, 2017 - 15:22
in Earth & Climate
Climate change could turn one of Africa's driest regions into a very wet one by suddenly switching on a Monsoon circulation. For the first time, scientists find evidence in computer simulations for a possible abrupt change to heavy seasonal rainfall in the Sahel, a region that so far has been characterized by extreme dryness.