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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 42, 期 18, 页码 7563-7571出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065533
关键词
dust emissions; precipitation; vegetation; Sahel; Saharan
资金
- VPR Office of the University of Virginia
- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center
- NSF [DBI-1052875]
- China Scholarship Council
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure [1052875] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Geosciences [1148334] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Earth Sciences [1148334] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Drought persistence in West African Sahel has often been explained as an effect of positive vegetation-atmosphere feedback associated with surface albedo or the partitioning of solar radiation into sensible and latent heat fluxes. An often overlooked aspect of land-atmosphere coupling results from vegetation controls on dust emissions and the ability of mineral aerosols to suppress precipitation. Here we first consider the case of local (endogenous) dynamics within the Sahel, whereby enhanced dust emissions resulting from a decrease in vegetation partly suppress precipitation, thereby further reducing vegetation cover. We then account for teleconnections between Sahel precipitation and exogenous (i.e., Saharan) dust emissions due to an increase in Saharan wind speed in years of above average Sahel precipitation. We find that in both cases vegetation-climate dynamics may have two stable states, one with low precipitation and high concentration of atmospheric dust and the other with high precipitation and lower levels of atmospheric dust.
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