We present evidence, based on an ensemble of integrations with NSIPP1 (version 1 of the atmospheric general circulation model developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in the framework of the Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Project) forced only by the observed record of sea surface temperature from 1930 to 2000, to suggest that variability of rainfall in the Sahel results from the resp...

Abstract Since 2013, the multiplication of regional and international strategies actions directed at stabilizing Mali Sahel, countering preventing violent extremism, has not improved situation there and, arguably, some it made worse. This article analyses type political order governance that been is being built after almost a decade interventions in West African Sahel. It an effort theorizing m...

Can focusing on gender help us to better understand the mobilization capacity of jihadi insurgent groups and their social roots in Sahel? A growing literature has explored factors that motivate people join such Africa. The Sahel provides a salient case, but prevalent focus agent-based explanations tended overlook role relations constructions. This article explores potential practice theory shed...

[1] Pronounced changes in land use and surface properties like those that have occurred in the Sahel could lead to reduced land surface emissivity and thus might have an asymmetric impact on daytime and nighttime surface air temperature. This paper analyzes the sensitivity of simulated climate and energy balance to changes in soil emissivity over the Sahel using the recently developed Community...

The importance of understanding processes that govern the hydroclimate of the Mediterranean Basin is highlighted by the projected significant drying of the region in response to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations. Here we study the long-term hydroclimatic variability of the central Levant region, situated in the eastern boundary of the Basin, as reveled by instrumental observations a...