Satellite-based rainfall data reveal a recent drying trend in central equatorial Africa

• Published in: Climatic change Vol. 126; no. 1-2; pp. 263 - 272
• Main Authors: Diem, Jeremy E, Ryan, Sadie J, Hartter, Joel, Palace, Michael W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer-Verlag 01.09.2014; Springer Netherlands; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aerosols; Annual rainfall; Atmospheric Sciences; autumn; Biodiversity; Biodiversity hot spots; Biomass; Biomass burning; burning; Climate; Climate change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Climate science; Climatology; data collection; Datasets; dry season; Drying; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Earth, ocean, space; Endangered species; Estimating; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; Food security; Global warming; Growing season; human population; Human populations; Hydrologic data; Letter; Mesoscale convective complexes; meteorological data; Meteorology; Novellas; Rain; rain forests; Rainfall; Rainforests; satellites; Sea surface temperature; Seasons; Subsistence agriculture; subsistence farming; Summer; surface water temperature; Trends; Water in the atmosphere (humidity, clouds, evaporation, precipitation); Wildlife conservation; Somalia; Uganda; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Indian Ocean; Atlantic Ocean; Republic of the Congo; Central Africa; East Africa; Africa; AN, North Atlantic; ISW, Indian Ocean; ISW, Somalia; Indian Ocean Dipole; Carbonaceous Aerosol; Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation; Boreal Summer; Rainfall Trend; time series analysis; Dry out; Climatology; rainfall; trend-surface analysis; atmospheric precipitation; 1990-2000; Space remote sensing; 2000-2010; Observation data; Satellite observation; 1980-1990

West-central Uganda, a biodiversity hotspot on the eastern edge of central equatorial Africa (CEA), is a region coping with balancing food security needs of a rapidly growing human population dependent on subsistence agriculture with the conservation of critically endangered species. Documenting and...