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.003a.svgz" name="3262451.fig.003a" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(a) </b>JJAS GPCP</td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2016/3262451/figures/3262451.fig.003b.svgz" name="3262451.fig.003b" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(b) </b>JJAS RegCM4</td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="c"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2016/3262451/figures/3262451.fig.003c.svgz" name="3262451.fig.003c" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(c) </b>JJAS (RegCM4 – GPCP)</td></tr></table>

<div>Mean summer rainfall (mm/day) averaged from 2003 to 2009 over West Africa: (a) GPCP climatology, (b) RegCM4, and (c) RegCM4 – GPCP.</div>

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Figure 3: Impacts of the Sahel-Sahara Interface Reforestation on West African Climate: Intraseasonal Variability and Extreme Precipitation Events 