Water resources in Africa under global change: monitoring surface waters from space

F Papa, JF Crétaux, M Grippa, E Robert, M Trigg… - Surveys in …, 2023 - Springer
The African continent hosts some of the largest freshwater systems worldwide, characterized
by a large distribution and variability of surface waters that play a key role in the water …

The global monsoon across time scales: Mechanisms and outstanding issues

PX Wang, B Wang, H Cheng, J Fasullo, ZT Guo… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
The present paper addresses driving mechanisms of global monsoon (GM) variability and
outstanding issues in GM science. This is the second synthesis of the PAGES GM Working …

Drought modeling–A review

AK Mishra, VP Singh - Journal of Hydrology, 2011 - Elsevier
In recent years droughts have been occurring frequently, and their impacts are being
aggravated by the rise in water demand and the variability in hydro-meteorological variables …

[HTML][HTML] The version-2 global precipitation climatology project (GPCP) monthly precipitation analysis (1979–present)

RF Adler, GJ Huffman, A Chang… - Journal of …, 2003 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Version-2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Precipitation
Analysis (1979–Present) in: Journal of Hydrometeorology Volume 4 Issue 6 (2003) Jump to …

Pacific–East Asian teleconnection: how does ENSO affect East Asian climate?

B Wang, R Wu, X Fu - Journal of climate, 2000 - journals.ametsoc.org
Observational evidence is presented to show a teleconnection between the central Pacific
and East Asia during the extreme phases of ENSO cycles. This Pacific–East Asian …

SOLS: A lake database to monitor in the Near Real Time water level and storage variations from remote sensing data

JF Crétaux, A Arsen, S Calmant, A Kouraev… - Advances in space …, 2011 - Elsevier
An accurate and continuous monitoring of lakes and inland seas is available since 1993
thanks to the satellite altimetry missions (Topex–Poseidon, GFO, ERS-2, Jason-1, Jason-2 …

Progress during TOGA in understanding and modeling global teleconnections associated with tropical sea surface temperatures

KE Trenberth, GW Branstator, D Karoly… - Journal of …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
The primary focus of this review is tropical‐extratropical interactions and especially the
issues involved in determining the response of the extratropical atmosphere to tropical …

African climate change: 1900-2100

M Hulme, R Doherty, T Ngara, M New, D Lister - Climate research, 2001 - int-res.com
This paper reviews observed (1900-2000) and possible future (2000-2100) continent-wide
changes in temperature and rainfall for Africa. For the historic period we draw upon a new …

The global precipitation climatology project (GPCP) combined precipitation dataset

GJ Huffman, RF Adler, P Arkin, A Chang… - Bulletin of the …, 1997 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) has released the GPCP Version 1
Combined Precipitation Data Set, a global, monthly precipitation dataset covering the period …

Trends in intense precipitation in the climate record

PY Groisman, RW Knight, DR Easterling… - Journal of …, 2005 - journals.ametsoc.org
Observed changes in intense precipitation (eg, the frequency of very heavy precipitation or
the upper 0.3% of daily precipitation events) have been analyzed for over half of the land …