Comments on: The Greening of Sahel: Passive recovery or active adaptation? http://rs.resalliance.org/2005/11/14/the-greening-of-sahel-passive-recovery-or-active-adaptation/ coping with ecological suprise in a human dominated world Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:43:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Line Gordon http://rs.resalliance.org/2005/11/14/the-greening-of-sahel-passive-recovery-or-active-adaptation/#comment-146 Line Gordon Wed, 30 Nov 2005 04:00:41 +0000 http://blog.resalliance.org/?p=89#comment-146 The future climate of Sahel is discussed in a new paper in PNAS. The model used in the paper shows an increase of future droughts in the region, which is contradictory to earlier estimates (and another paper published in Geophysical Research Letters earlier this year)s. See summary of the paper on scidev.net in <a href="http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/climate-model-refutes-predictions-of-wetter-sahel.cfm">climate model refutes predictions of wetter Sahel</a>. The future climate of Sahel is discussed in a new paper in PNAS. The model used in the paper shows an increase of future droughts in the region, which is contradictory to earlier estimates (and another paper published in Geophysical Research Letters earlier this year)s. See summary of the paper on scidev.net in climate model refutes predictions of wetter Sahel.

]]> By: Line Gordon http://rs.resalliance.org/2005/11/14/the-greening-of-sahel-passive-recovery-or-active-adaptation/#comment-145 Line Gordon Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:06:26 +0000 http://blog.resalliance.org/?p=89#comment-145 It is also interesting that the Senegal river flow has been increasing. You can read an interview with Dr. Pierre Hubert, Senior researcher at the National School of Mining Engineering in Paris and Secretary-general of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (AISH) at http://www.irc.nl/page/26893. He is comments on how this change is linked to the outbreak of locusts in the region. /Line It is also interesting that the Senegal river flow has been increasing. You can read an interview with Dr. Pierre Hubert, Senior researcher at the National School of Mining Engineering in Paris and Secretary-general of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (AISH) at http://www.irc.nl/page/26893.

He is comments on how this change is linked to the outbreak of locusts in the region.
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