Abstract: In light of the droughts and subsequent food crises that have plagued the Ethiopia?Sudan region in the course of its history, and especially during the last 3 decades, the author examines both the interannual and intraseasonal ...

Abstract: urrent seasonal prediction of rainfall typically focuses on 3-month rainfall totals at regional scale. This temporal summation reduces the noise related to smaller-scale weather variability but also implicitly emphasizes ...

Abstract: n agroclimatology, the rainy season onset and cessation dates are often defined from a combination of several empirical rainfall thresholds. For example, the onset may be the first wet day of N consecutive days receiving ...

Abstract: limate variability directly affects traditional low input and rain-fed farming systems, but few studies have paid attention retrospectively to the cropping system?s ability to mitigate climate risk. This study analyzes the ...

Abstract: This study examines the spatial coherence characteristics of daily station observations of rainfall in five tropical regions during the principal rainfall season(s): the Brazilian Nordeste, Senegal, Kenya, northwestern ...