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Climatology of Tropical Cyclones Approaching Tanzania and Their Impacts on Rainfall in East Africa

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
Tropical cyclones (TCs) that approach Tanzania bring heavy rainfall over northern Mozambique, Tanzania, and south‐central Kenya, but the occurrence of these TCs reduces precipitation over southern African countries. Easterly steering winds and the Mascarene High are key features directing TCs westward.
Michinori Ideyoshi, Youichi Kamae
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Annual and Seasonal Rainfall Variability in Mozambique During the Nineteenth Century

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
This paper presents the first annually and seasonally resolved reconstructions of nineteenth‐century rainfall variability for Mozambique derived from the analysis of extensive documentary evidence. It reveals spatially heterogeneous rainfall patterns with recurrent multi‐year droughts, episodic extreme wet events, and a strong coherence between ...
David J. Nash, Matthew J. Hannaford, Bárbara Direito   +2 more
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Bycatch in drift gillnet fisheries: A sink for Indian Ocean cetaceans

Conservation Letters
In 1992, the UN banned the use of large‐scale pelagic driftnets on the high seas (UNGA Resolution 46/215). Three decades later, however, drift gillnets remain one of the primary fishing gears in the Indian Ocean, accounting for approximately 30% of tuna ...
Brianna Elliott, Jeremy J. Kiszka, Sylvain Bonhommeau, Umair Shahid, Rebecca Lent, Lauren Nelson, Andrew J. Read   +6 more
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Biogeography and change among regional coral communities across the western Indian Ocean [PDF]

, 2014
Coral reefs are biodiverse ecosystems structured by abiotic and biotic factors operating across many spatial scales. Regional-scale interactions between climate change, biogeography and fisheries management remain poorly understood.
Nyawira A Muthiga, Timothy R. McClanahan (166326), McClanahan, T. R., Graham, Nicholas A. J., Nyawira A. Muthiga (549238), Emily S Darling, Mebrahtu Ateweberhan, Timothy R McClanahan, Nicholas A. J. Graham (115235), Darling, Emily S., Emily S. Darling (138580), Ateweberhan, Mebrahtu, Muthiga, Nyawira‏, Nicholas A J Graham, Mebrahtu Ateweberhan (210309), McClanahan, Tim R., Graham, Nicholas A.J.   +16 more
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Compound Meteorological and Hydrological Hot‐Dry and Hot‐Wet Extremes Over Global Land Areas: Spatiotemporal Changes, Attribution, and Drivers

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
The changes in joint return period of compound meteorological hot‐dry (CMHHE) and hot‐wet (CMHWE) and compound hydrological hot‐dry (CHHDE) and hot‐wet (CHHWE) extremes were attributed to changes in associated univariate extremes and their dependence.
Ruting Yang, Silong Zhang, Xiongpeng Tang, Chao Gao, Haibin Zhang, Xin Yin, Yanli Liu   +6 more
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ENSO or the Atlantic: Which Actually Governs the Hydrological Vulnerability of the Caatinga?

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
This study challenges the traditional ENSO‐centric paradigm of rainfall variability in the Caatinga by demonstrating that the Tropical Atlantic exerts a statistically dominant influence on regional hydrological vulnerability. Using a seasonal ARX/HAC model and CHIRPS data, we establish a new hierarchy of climatic drivers across six rainfall districts ...
Jonathan Antunes Ponte Cavalcante Leite, Bartolomeu Israel de Souza, Sabina Asins‐Velis, Luiz Bueno da Silva   +3 more
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Teleconnections of the tropical Atlantic to the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans: A review of recent findings

Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 2009
Recent studies found that tropical Atlantic variability may affect the climate in both the tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean basins, possibly modulating the Indian summer monsoon and Pacific ENSO events.
Chunzai Wang, Fred Kucharski, Rondrotiana Barimalala, Annalisa Bracco   +3 more
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Holocene vegetation dynamics of Grande Terre (Kerguelen Islands) inferred from sedimentary ancient DNA

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the Antarctic region has experienced significant climatic changes over the Holocene, few high‐resolution records have examined their effects on the local biota. In order to understand past ecological shifts and forecast future changes, it is important to obtain high‐resolution palaeoecological records from this region.
Xaali O'Reilly‐Berkeley, Aloïs Revéret, Youri Lammers, Maaike Zwier, Anne E. Bjune, Fabien Arnaud, Jostein Bakke, Sandra Nogué, Inger G. Alsos   +8 more
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Asynchronous population trends stabilize mesopredatory coral reef fish communities in the face of global change

Oikos, EarlyView.
Biodiversity can underpin stability in communities, allowing them to withstand environmental fluctuations without changes in aggregate properties like total abundance or biomass. We investigated the influence of biodiversity on two crucial population‐level mechanisms governing abundance stability in mesopredatory coral reef fishes: 1) ‘community ...
Rucha Karkarey, Eva Maire, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Valeriano Parravicini, Simon. J. Brandl, Jeremy Carlot, Mehdi Adjeroud, Rohan Arthur, Teresa Alcoverro, Shaun. K. Wilson, Jordan Goetze, Thomas H. Holmes, Julien Wickel, Dan. A. Exton, Sally A. Keith   +14 more
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Who Holds the Strings? Hybrid Governance in Small States

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governance in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) is reshaped by enduring postcolonial legacies, recurrent crises, and deepening global interdependence. It highlights turbulence, understood as a structural, generative condition of fragmented and recombining authority, as its central analytical contribution ...
Dana‐Marie Ramjit
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