This review examines several aspects of the climate of eastern Africa. The climatic
commonality throughout the region is the frequent occurrence of drought severe enough to …

We review the use and value of seasonal climate forecasting for agriculture in sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA), with a view to understanding and exploiting opportunities to realize more of its …

This study focuses on describing the patterns and trends of five selected rainfall indices in
Peninsular Malaysia, based on daily rainfall data from 1975 to 2004. Five rainfall indices …

The role of savannas during the course of early human evolution has been debated for
nearly a century, in part because of difficulties in characterizing local ecosystems from fossil …

The inter-annual and spatial variability of different rainfall variables is analysed over
Equatorial East Africa (Kenya and northeastern Tanzania). At the station level, three …

Eastern Africa, classically presented as a major dry climate anomaly region in the otherwise
wet equatorial belt, is a transition zone between the monsoon domains of West Africa and …

Water and its influence on plants likely exerted strong adaptive pressures in human
evolution. Understanding relationships among water, plants, and early humans is limited …

Quantifying local people's perceptions to climate change, and their assessments of which
changes matter, is fundamental to addressing the dual challenge of land conservation and …

Monsoon rainfall plays a crucial part in Africa's socio-economic structure and its year-to-year
variability has profound implications for agricultural, energy, and other societal sectors. The …

Spatial Coherence and Seasonal Predictability of Monsoon Onset over Indonesia in:
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