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On the decadal scale correlation between African dust and Sahel rainfall: The role of Saharan heat low–forced winds

A large body of work has shown that year-to-year variations in North African dust emission are inversely proportional to previous-year monsoon rainfall in the Sahel, implying that African dust emission is highly sensitive to vegetation changes in this narrow transitional zone. However, such a theory...

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Autores principales: Wang, Weijie, Evan, Amato T., Flamant, Cyrille, Lavaysse, Christophe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4646815/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26601301
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500646