Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Enhanced future changes in wet and dry extremes over Africa at convection-permitting scale

  • Elizabeth J. Kendon,
  • Rachel A. Stratton,
  • Simon Tucker,
  • John H. Marsham,
  • Ségolène Berthou,
  • David P. Rowell,
  • Catherine A. Senior

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09776-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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For the first time, climate change experiments with a convection-permitting model have been carried out over an Africa-wide domain. These show more severe future changes in both wet and dry extremes over Africa compared to a traditional coarser resolution climate model.