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| ID | 733 |
| Title | Reconstructed monsoon precipitation of North Africa over 200 years |
| Creator | Sainan Liu |
| Subject | Reconstructed monsoon precipitation data |
| Publisher | Xiukuan Zhao |
| Description | We selected the wetness index of Sahel (13-15; 18-20)\ Guinea coast (24, 28-29) (Nicholson, Dezfuli, et al., 2012; Nicholson, Klotter, et al., 2012) and the reconstructed upper Nile River flow (Blue Nile River and Tekeze-Atbara River) based on tree-ring (Mokria et al., 2017) to reconstruct the NAFM precipitation. First, we conducted a correlation analysis between the humidity indices of the Sahel and Guinea Coast regions, as well as the upper Nile River flow (Blue Nile River and Tekeze-Atbara River), and the observed monsoon precipitation intensity during the calibration period (1951-1994) (C. Xu et al., 2023). And then we use the composite-plus-scale (CPS) and line regression method (Tierney et al., 2015) to reconstruct the precipitation. [ Reference ] Nicholson, S. E., Dezfuli, A. K., & Klotter, D. (2012). A Two-Century Precipitation Dataset for the Continent of Africa. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93(8), 1219–1231. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00212.1 Nicholson, S. E., Klotter, D., & Dezfuli, A. K. (2012). Spatial reconstruction of semi-quantitative precipitation fields over Africa during the nineteenth century from documentary evidence and gauge data. Quaternary Research, 78(1), 13–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2012.03.012 Mokria, M., Gebrekirstos, A., Abiyu, A., Van Noordwijk, M., & Bräuning, A. (2017). Multi‐century tree‐ring precipitation record reveals increasing frequency of extreme dry events in the upper Blue Nile River catchment. Global Change Biology, 23(12), 5436–5454. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13809 Tierney, J. E., Abram, N. J., Anchukaitis, K. J., Evans, M. N., Giry, C., Kilbourne, K. H., Saenger, C. P., Wu, H. C., & Zinke, J. (2015). Tropical sea surface temperatures for the past four centuries reconstructed from coral archives. Paleoceanography, 30(3), 226–252. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014PA002717 Xu, C., Wang, S.-Y. S., Borhara, K., Buckley, B., Tan, N., Zhao, Y., An, W., Sano, M., Nakatsuka, T., & Guo, Z. (2023). Asian-Australian summer monsoons linkage to ENSO strengthened by global warming. Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00341-2 |
| Contributor | Ru Huang, S.-Y. Simon Wang, Chenxi Xu |
| Date | 1801-1994: reconstructed data; 1995-2014: observed data |
| Type | The first column is year, and the second column is reconstructed monsoon precipitation (1801-1994) and observed precipitation (1995-2014). |
| Format | *.xlsx |
| URL | http://www.geophys.ac.cn/ArticleData/20250928Precip_Recon_NAfrica.zip |
| DOI | 10.12197/2025GA034 |
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| Language | Eng |
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| Rights | Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences |