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SUBMITTER: Thiery W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5036145 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thiery Wim W Davin Edouard L EL Seneviratne Sonia I SI Bedka Kristopher K Lhermitte Stef S van Lipzig Nicole P M NP
Nature communications 20160923
Weather extremes have harmful impacts on communities around Lake Victoria, where thousands of fishermen die every year because of intense night-time thunderstorms. Yet how these thunderstorms will evolve in a future warmer climate is still unknown. Here we show that Lake Victoria is projected to be a hotspot of future extreme precipitation intensification by using new satellite-based observations, a high-resolution climate projection for the African Great Lakes and coarser-scale ensemble project ...[more]