African Climate and Climate Change Physical, Social and Political Pe
Compared to many other regions of the world, Africa is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and variability. Widespread poverty, an extensive disease burden and pockets of political instability across the continent has resulted in a lo
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ADVANCES IN GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH VOLUME 43
Editor-in-Chief Martin Beniston, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial Advisory Board B. Allen-Diaz, Department ESPM-Ecosystem Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. R.S. Bradley, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. W. Cramer, Earth System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany. H.F. Diaz, Climate Diagnostics Center, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA. S. Erkman, Institute for Communication and Analysis of Science and Technology–ICAST, Geneva, Switzerland. R. Garcia Herrera, Faculated de Fisicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. M. Lal, Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. U. Luterbacher, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. I. Noble, CRC for Greenhouse Accounting and Research School of Biological Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. L. Tessier, Institut Mediterranéen d’Ecologie et Paléoécologie, Marseille, France. F. Toth, International Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ec Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy. M.M. Verstraete, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ec Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy.
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Charles J.R. Williams · Dominic R. Kniveton Editors
African Climate and Climate Change Physical, Social and Political Perspectives
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Editors Dr. Charles J.R. Williams 2U18 Department of Meteorology University of Reading RG6 6BB Reading United Kingdom [email protected]
Dr. Dominic R. Kniveton University of Sussex Dept. Geography Chichester 1-143 BN1 9QJ Brighton Falmer United Kingdom [email protected]
ISSN 1574-0919 ISBN 978-90-481-3841-8 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3842-5 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3842-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011921406 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charles J.R. Williams and Dominic R. Kniveton
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Large Scale Features Affecting Ethiopian Rainfall . . . . . . . . . . . . Gulilat Tefera Diro, D.I.F. Grimes, and E. Black
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Ethiopian Rainfall in Climate Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gulilat Tefera Diro, Thomas Toniazzo, and Len Shaffrey
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Extreme Rainfall Events over Southern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charles J.R. Will
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