Impacts of the Sahel-Sahara Interface Reforestation on West African Climate: Intraseasonal Variability and Extreme Precipitation Events

<table class="figure-group"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2016/3262451/figures/3262451.fig.0013a.svgz" name="3262451.fig.0013a" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(a) </b>RegCM4 JJAS</td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2016/3262451/figures/3262451.fig.0013b.svgz" name="3262451.fig.0013b" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(b) </b>RegCM4_REFORESTATION JJAS</td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="c"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2016/3262451/figures/3262451.fig.0013c.svgz" name="3262451.fig.0013c" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(c) </b>JJAS (RegCM4_REFORESTATION – RegCM4)</td></tr></table>

<div>Mean JJAS 95th percentile of daily rainfall events (mm/day) over West Africa for both runs and their difference averaged from 2003 to 2009.</div>

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Figure 13: Impacts of the Sahel-Sahara Interface Reforestation on West African Climate: Intraseasonal Variability and Extreme Precipitation Events 