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evant to the recent Sahel drought is whether such large anthropogenic disturbance has actually taken place. A recent study of pop- ...
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www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/302/5647/999.pdf
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The recent Sahel drought was likely initiated by a change in worldwide ocean temperatures, which reduced the strength of the African monsoon, ...
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www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/302/5647/999/F1
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A fourth group of changes set in motion by the environmental emergencies of the 1970s involve a re-structuring of the Sahel's place in Africa and the world. The drought, when it received popular ... The African Sahel 25 years after the great drought: assessing progress and moving towards new agendas and approaches...
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www.simonbatterbury.net/pubs/geogmag.html
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Sahel Drought: Understanding the Past and Projecting into the Future ... It has been understood since the 1980's (Folland, Palmer, and Parker) that changes in ocean temperature played a significant role in producing the late 20th century Sahel drought. For a more recent influential paper making a strong case for the...
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www.gfdl.noaa.gov/sahel-drought
www.gfdl.noaa.gov/sahel-drought
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The issue of desertification has its origin in the Sahel drought of the 1970s and 1980s. Until recently, the accepted explanation for the persistence of drought in this region involved human impact on the environment.
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www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/papers/Giannini_S...
www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/papers/Giannini_SahelCyberseminar.pdf
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The Sahel Desert drought, which began in the late 1960s and lasted until the early 1980s, was the worst drought of the 20th century. ... With all those conditions, the computer model behaved just like the Sahel drought - producing a long period of dry, cool weather. It appears that human activity might not have been to...
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droughts.tripod.com/drought/id8.html
droughts.tripod.com/drought/id8.html
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The Sahel, the transition zone between the Saharan desert and the rainforests of Central Africa and the Guinean Coast, experienced a severe drying trend from the 1950s to the 1980s, from which there has been partial recovery.
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/16322101
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A study suggests that sea temperature rises were to blame for the Sahel droughts that devastated West Africa. ... 'Nature caused Sahel drought' ; 18 Nov 99 | Science/Nature...
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news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3191174.stm
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