Marco Gaetani

TL;DR: A comprehensive overview of climate change impacts on agriculture in West Africa based on the recent scientific literature is provided and potential for adaptation for major crops is illustrated.

TL;DR: It is shown that the surface wind field responsible for most of the variability in North African dust emission reflects the topography of the Sahara, owing to orographic acceleration of the surface flow.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed advances made during the last decade to better understand the impact of global SST variability on West African rainfall at interannual to decadal time scales, and concluded that a warming of the equatorial Atlantic and Pacific/Indian Oceans results in rainfall reduction over the Sahel, and positive SST anomalies over the Mediterranean Sea tend to be associated with increased rainfall.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize the literature on past and projected changes in the hydroclimate of the Sahelian-Saharan region and the associated feedbacks and further address the current state of knowledge concerning Saharan and SahelIAN afforestation projects and their consequences.

TL;DR: The Dynamics-Aerosol-Chemistry-Cloud Interactions in West Africa (DACCIWA) project organized a major international field campaign in southern West Africa as mentioned in this paper, including measurements from three inland ground supersites, urban sites in Cotonou and Abidjan, radiosondes, and three research aircraft.