File:Sahel rainfall timeseries.gif

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English: More than a century of rainfall data in the the Sahel sub-Saharan savanna show:
  • an unusually wet period from 1950 until 1970 (positive index values),
  • followed by extremely dry years from 1970 to 1990 (negative index values).
  • From 1990 until 2004 rainfall returned to levels slightly below the 1898–1993 average, but year-to-year variability was high.
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Source NASA Earth Observatory, Data
Author Todd Mitchell
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