North Atlantic salinity as a predictor of Sahel rainfall

Springtime North Atlantic sea surface salinity provides significant predictive utility for summer rainfall in the African Sahel.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Science Advances
Main Authors: Li, Laifang, Schmitt, Raymond W., Ummenhofer, Caroline C., Karnauskas, Kristopher B.
Other Authors: Ocean and Climate Change Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2016
Subjects:
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501588
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.1501588
Description
Summary:Springtime North Atlantic sea surface salinity provides significant predictive utility for summer rainfall in the African Sahel.

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