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 Modelling Vegetation-Climate Relationships

 
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Modelling Vegetation-Climate Relationships

 

 We are modelling the inter-relationships between climate variables and vegetation, in order to produce a land surface scheme for studying land-atmosphere interaction over Africa. We are also working with Prof. Steve Running and his associates, using their vegetation models to study the impact of changing climate on vegetation. Later we will use projected changes in vegetation to study the impact of vegetation on climate, using GCMs or Regional Models.
  1. 2002: Interpreting Annual Rainfall from the Levels of Lake Victoria. Journal of Hydrometeorology: Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 406–416. Xungang Yin and Sharon E. Nicholson.
  2. Rainfall (Yin)2001: Rainfall Conditions in Equatorial East Africa During the Nineteenth Century as Inferred from the Record of Lake Victoria. (with X. Yin) Climatic Change, 48, 387-398.
  3. 1999: Response to comment on "The water balance of Lake Victoria", by J. V. Sutcliffe (S. E. Nicholson and X. Yin). Hydrological Sciences Journal, 44, 836-837.
  4. Surface Water balance1997: The Mean Surface Water Balance over Africa and its Interannual Variablility (with J. Kim, M.B. Ba, A.R. Lare). V10, 2981-3002.
  5. 1997: A Daily Resolution Evapoclimatonomy Model Applied to Surface Water Balance Calculations at the HAPEX-Sahel supersites (with J.A. Marengo, J. Kim, A.R. Lare, S. Galle, Y.H. Kerr). Journal of Hyrdology 188-189, 946-964.
  6. Evapoclimatology1996: Application of Evapoclimatonomy to Monthly Surface Water Balance Calculations at the HAPEX-Sahel Supersites. (With J.A. Marengo, A.R. Lare, B.A. Monteny and S. Galle) Journal of Applied Meteorology, Vol 35, No. 4, April 1996
  7. Lettau's Evapoclimatology1996: A Revised Version of Lettau's Evapoclimatonly Model. (With J.A. Marengo, P. Santos) Journal of Applied Meteorology, Vol 35, No. 4, April 1996
  8. 1990: A climatonomic description of the surface energy balance in the central Sahel. Part I. Shortwave radiation. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 29, 123-137 (A.R. Lare and S.E. Nicholson).
  9. 1990: A climatonomic description of the surface energy balance in the central Sahel. Part II. The evapoclimatonomy submodel. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 29, 138-146 (S.E. Nicholson and A.R. Lare).