Changes in Ugandan Climate Rainfall at the Village and Forest Level

In 2013, the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) refined the historical rainfall estimates over the African Continent and produced the African Rainfall Climate version 2.0 (ARC2) estimator. ARC2 offers a nearly complete record of daily rainfall estimates since 1983 at 0.1...

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Autores principales: Ssentongo, Paddy, Muwanguzi, Abraham J. B., Eden, Uri, Sauer, Timothy, Bwanga, George, Kateregga, Geoffrey, Aribo, Lawrence, Ojara, Moses, Mugerwa, Wilberforce Kisamba, Schiff, Steven J.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29476058
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21427-5
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author Ssentongo, Paddy
Muwanguzi, Abraham J. B.
Eden, Uri
Sauer, Timothy
Bwanga, George
Kateregga, Geoffrey
Aribo, Lawrence
Ojara, Moses
Mugerwa, Wilberforce Kisamba
Schiff, Steven J.
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description In 2013, the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) refined the historical rainfall estimates over the African Continent and produced the African Rainfall Climate version 2.0 (ARC2) estimator. ARC2 offers a nearly complete record of daily rainfall estimates since 1983 at 0.1° × 0.1° resolution. Despite short-term anomalies, we identify an overall decrease in average rainfall of about 12% during the past 34 years in Uganda. Spatiotemporally, these decreases are greatest in agricultural regions of central and western Uganda, but similar rainfall decreases are also reflected in the gorilla habitat within the Bwindi Forest in Southwest Uganda. The findings carry significant implications for agriculture production, food security, wildlife habitat, and economic impact at the community and societal level.
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spelling pubmed-58248792018-03-01 Changes in Ugandan Climate Rainfall at the Village and Forest Level Ssentongo, Paddy Muwanguzi, Abraham J. B. Eden, Uri Sauer, Timothy Bwanga, George Kateregga, Geoffrey Aribo, Lawrence Ojara, Moses Mugerwa, Wilberforce Kisamba Schiff, Steven J. Sci Rep Article In 2013, the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) refined the historical rainfall estimates over the African Continent and produced the African Rainfall Climate version 2.0 (ARC2) estimator. ARC2 offers a nearly complete record of daily rainfall estimates since 1983 at 0.1° × 0.1° resolution. Despite short-term anomalies, we identify an overall decrease in average rainfall of about 12% during the past 34 years in Uganda. Spatiotemporally, these decreases are greatest in agricultural regions of central and western Uganda, but similar rainfall decreases are also reflected in the gorilla habitat within the Bwindi Forest in Southwest Uganda. The findings carry significant implications for agriculture production, food security, wildlife habitat, and economic impact at the community and societal level. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5824879/ /pubmed/29476058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21427-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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