[PDF] Top 20 The land-atmosphere coupling and climate extremes in Africa

... of the most important variables of the climate system as it constrains evapotranspiration, affecting the water and energy balances at the surface, mainly over transition areas ... See full document

... practised in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Senegal, and Niger (Akinnagbe and Irohibe, ...by in Manyoni District of Tanzania revealed that farmers in Kamenyanga and Kintinku ensure proper ... See full document

... feature in magnitude of up to 2.5 K over southwestern Spain, Italy, the Balkans and the North African shoreline (evalu- ation regions 1 – Csa climate, 2 – Csa climate, 8, partly ... See full document

... variation and conflict (Burke et ...temperature and civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1981 –2002 and argued that over a 35- year period climate change has ... See full document

... with the climate forcings. The type of vegetation alongside productivity-related structural aspects such as tree density and leaf-area index (LAI) are impor- tant determinants for surface ... See full document

... classes) and over a seasonal cycle. It is planned to use the more detailed USDA tex- ture description relying on 12 classes (Reynolds et ...For the coarser classes, preliminary tests indicate that ... See full document

... estimate the possible future severity of flow-related episodes, a previous one-box calibration of the MAGIC model (Evans, 2005) was revised to include two soil ...Following the procedure of Neal et ... See full document

... catchments in the domain. In order to overcome this, Dadson et ...for the PDM b parameter from soil depth data for Europe, where values for b ... See full document

... exploring the role of surface temperatures and wind patterns on fire occurrence and fire ...warming and drying trend in Central America indicates that increases in fire ... See full document

... by the water limitation experienced by this site in 2005 and during the first months of 2006 (February, March and ...mortality and/or decomposition of fallen branches or ...to ... See full document

... considering the impacts of extreme events on the societal fabric, a prima- ry role is played by the level of resilience and preparedness of the affected local ...social and ... See full document

... that the actual agricultural production in BLA represents ...that the average BLA farm could increase its agricultural production in ...using the current amount of inputs. Land ... See full document

... cover and open shrub or grassland in polar and alpine regions is commonly associated with the so-called «tree ...to the temperature isotherm of ...2007). In reality, local ... See full document

... Since the early use of the occultation measurement princi- ple for sounding planetary atmospheres and ionospheres, its exploitation in atmospheric remote sensing has seen tremen- dous ... See full document

... sula and northern Africa via the initiation of ...emphasise the important role of diabatic heating on the Tibetan Plateau by forming desert climate in North Africa, ... See full document

... Europe in the last quarter of the 20 th century, more than other bird populations in other habitats (Gregory et ...to the intensification of agriculture, strongly shaped by the ... See full document

... of the data concerning the abundance of specific micro-organisms in the air (such as the fungi and bacteria cited above) are based on the growth of these organisms on ... See full document

... to climate change does not indicate ‘re-vegetation’, instead it implies col- onization possibilities—regions that once exhibited unsuitable climate for certain plants may in the future be ... See full document

... A., and Whetton, P.: Regional climate projections, in: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of ... See full document

... relationships and synchronize the temporal and spatial convergence of multiple infectious agents, triggering epidemics with far greater mortality than those due to single ...present the first ... See full document