Temporal Variations of the Annual-Mean Precipitation over the Sahel Region of Africa (image)

University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science

Caption

Top map: Spatial distribution of the annual-mean precipitation averaged from 1979-2008. Bottom: Time series of the annual mean precipitation anomaly relative to the 1971-2000 climatology over the Sahel region of Africa.

Credit

Top:Credit: Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) data set. Bottom:Credit: Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) data set. Background image: Drought - George Safonov

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