[PDF] Top 20 Changes in Vegetation and Rainfall over West Africa during the Last Three Decades (1981 2010)

... The vegetation indices implanted for this study is the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) AVHRR NDVI, covering the period 1981-2012 with horizontal resolution of 8 km and 15-day temporal ... See full document

... analysis. Changes from the baseline period 1981-2010 were computed for far future (2061-2090 and ...irregular rainfall concentrations, whereas stations in northern basin will have irregular ... See full document

... in Africa are a result of the relationship between the re- gional climate, vegetation, land use and anthropogenic activ- ities (Le Page et ...al., 2010). These fires affect vegetation patterns ... See full document

... of vegetation with remote sensing helps to understand the linkages between vegetation, climate, and anthropogenic ...activities. Changes in land use resulting from population growth have triggered a ... See full document

... induces changes in the atmospheric ...circulation over Africa with respect to an increased albedo, found strong low level easterlies and a weak Tropical Easterly Jet ...with vegetation cover ... See full document

... of West African temperature and rainfall distribution to some of these IPCC’s scenarios are hereby fully ...and rainfall trends and distribution over the entire West Africa ... See full document

... transmitted during the last decades from West European culture into the Bulgar- ian wedding tradition, and analyse the specific dialogue between ‘global’ items and local ... See full document

... We approached a total of 95 senior academics, asking for their recollections of when they first heard the term mosaics applied to hominin environments, whether in Africa or in Asia (Table 3). These academics were ... See full document

... the vegetation. Awareness of urban vegetation, environmental quality and knowledge is really important for conservation of natural resource, management and improvement of ecosystem of urban ...on ... See full document

... annual rainfall totals, and days of rain greater than ...750 rainfall station in the Republic of Ireland for the 30-year period ...annual rainfall between the two averaging periods with corresponding ... See full document

... Table 2, modal and structural properties of the Box Girder are changed notably. Values before updating are as-designed conditions and modal parameters are for posttensioning with different boundary conditions. Whereas ... See full document

... patterns of phenology response to rainfall across Africa, and for different vegetation types... To define the relations between phenology and rainfall, we investigated the spatial variat[r] ... See full document

... global (and local) climate, we were interested to examine to what extent changes in the hydrological cycle might be evident in the observational record. Several studies have previously reported on hydrological ... See full document

... waters during HSs due to a reduction or shut-down of the AMOC (the “seesaw hy- pothesis”, Broecker, 1998) and with South East Atlantic SST reconstructions showing a warming during periods associ- ated with ... See full document

... land-use changes that considerably alter natural ...of vegetation, water, proneness to hazards zones, proximity to required resources, etc (Abdulkadir et ... See full document

... of rainfall has changed little but the variability has increased over the time interval divided by change points (Zhang et ...Further, changes in the characteristics of precipitation extremes across ... See full document

... the last two decades, it has been realised that besides strength, there are other equally important criteria for the characterisation of concrete such as durability, workability and ... See full document

... Strengths of this study include the population-based design of the included studies, the extensive data on genetic variants through the assessment of SNPs of relevant genes, and a sample size that exceeds that in most ... See full document

... In West Africa, distinctive landscapes exist where ferricrete, a hard erosion-resistant layer, is ...the vegetation on bowé desiccates quickly and burns by early fires in the dry ...thus ... See full document

... models over the ...that over the Sahel, uncertainties in total precipitation come from both uncertainties in the intensity and on the frequency of wet ...days. Over the Guinean region, Figure 3b ... See full document