Preserved Leaf Waxes Inform Rainfall Changes during Green Sahara (IMAGE)

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Preserved Leaf Waxes Inform Rainfall Changes during Green Sahara

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Simulation showing changes in precipitation during the winter rainy season in the Mediterranean (mm/month) between a reduced dust Green Sahara and preindustrial simulations. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 18, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.E. Tierney at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden, and colleagues was titled, 'Rainfall regimes of the Green Sahara.'

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[Credit: Tierney <i>et al.</i> Sci. Adv. 2017;3:e1601503]

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