Simulation of Sahel drought in the 20th and 21st centuries.

PubWeight™: 4.70‹?› | Rank: Top 1%

🔗 View Article (PMC 1312412)

Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on December 01, 2005

Authors

I M Held1, T L Delworth, J Lu, K L Findell, T R Knutson

Author Affiliations

1: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Princeton, NJ 08542, USA. isaac.held@noaa.gov

Articles citing this

Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 14.68

Tropical drying trends in global warming models and observations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 4.03

Assessing "dangerous climate change": required reduction of carbon emissions to protect young people, future generations and nature. PLoS One (2013) 3.36

Farmers' perceptions of climate change and agricultural adaptation strategies in rural Sahel. Environ Manage (2008) 2.72

Warming of the Indian Ocean threatens eastern and southern African food security but could be mitigated by agricultural development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 2.71

Migrations and dynamics of the intertropical convergence zone. Nature (2014) 2.22

Solar-powered drip irrigation enhances food security in the Sudano-Sahel. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 1.87

Relationship between African dust carried in the Atlantic trade winds and surges in pediatric asthma attendances in the Caribbean. Int J Biometeorol (2008) 1.58

Integrated genomics, physiology and breeding approaches for improving drought tolerance in crops. Theor Appl Genet (2012) 1.47

Hydrological response to climate change for Gilgel Abay River, in the Lake Tana Basin -Upper Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia. PLoS One (2013) 1.14

Crocodiles in the Sahara desert: an update of distribution, habitats and population status for conservation planning in Mauritania. PLoS One (2011) 0.89

Projected changes in African easterly wave intensity and track in response to greenhouse forcing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014) 0.87

Rainfall regimes of the Green Sahara. Sci Adv (2017) 0.81

Saharan dust nutrients promote Vibrio bloom formation in marine surface waters. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2016) 0.80

Land degradation assessment by geo-spatially modeling different soil erodibility equations in a semi-arid catchment. Environ Monit Assess (2010) 0.76

Agriculture in West Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Climate Change and Impacts Scenarios, and Potential for Adaptation. Front Plant Sci (2016) 0.75

Overlooked mountain rock pools in deserts are critical local hotspots of biodiversity. PLoS One (2015) 0.75

North Atlantic salinity as a predictor of Sahel rainfall. Sci Adv (2016) 0.75

Allometric convergence in savanna trees and implications for the use of plant scaling models in variable ecosystems. PLoS One (2013) 0.75

Profile of Isaac M. Held. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 0.75

Influence of Latent Heating over the Asian and Western Pacific Monsoon Region on Sahel Summer Rainfall. Sci Rep (2017) 0.75

Articles by these authors

(truncated to the top 100)

Signal-dependent nuclear export of a histone deacetylase regulates muscle differentiation. Nature (2000) 8.59

Genome of the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae strain R6. J Bacteriol (2001) 7.97

Pelvic radiation with concurrent chemotherapy compared with pelvic and para-aortic radiation for high-risk cervical cancer. N Engl J Med (1999) 7.56

Assessment of the sensitivity and specificity of oligonucleotide (50mer) microarrays. Nucleic Acids Res (2000) 6.20

Serum cholesterol concentration and coronary heart disease in population with low cholesterol concentrations. BMJ (1991) 5.45

Cytochrome c release and apoptosis induced by mitochondrial targeting of nuclear orphan receptor TR3. Science (2000) 4.57

PEBP2/PEA2 represents a family of transcription factors homologous to the products of the Drosophila runt gene and the human AML1 gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1993) 4.05

Anthropogenic warming of Earth's climate system. Science (2001) 3.94

Comparative sequence analysis of a gene-rich cluster at human chromosome 12p13 and its syntenic region in mouse chromosome 6. Genome Res (1998) 3.80

Germline BRCA2 gene mutations in patients with apparently sporadic pancreatic carcinomas. Cancer Res (1996) 3.60

The sedative component of anesthesia is mediated by GABA(A) receptors in an endogenous sleep pathway. Nat Neurosci (2002) 3.52

Association of low levels of mannan-binding protein with a common defect of opsonisation. Lancet (1989) 3.12

PATRIC: the VBI PathoSystems Resource Integration Center. Nucleic Acids Res (2006) 3.06

Egr-1, a master switch coordinating upregulation of divergent gene families underlying ischemic stress. Nat Med (2000) 2.79

Melanopsin in cells of origin of the retinohypothalamic tract. Nat Neurosci (2001) 2.79

SCH 503034, a mechanism-based inhibitor of hepatitis C virus NS3 protease, suppresses polyprotein maturation and enhances the antiviral activity of alpha interferon in replicon cells. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2006) 2.75

Human homologues of yeast helicase. Nature (1996) 2.71

The human fibroblast growth factor receptor genes: a common structural arrangement underlies the mechanisms for generating receptor forms that differ in their third immunoglobulin domain. Mol Cell Biol (1991) 2.63

Requirement of the MADS-box transcription factor MEF2C for vascular development. Development (1998) 2.63

The histone acetylase PCAF is a nuclear receptor coactivator. Genes Dev (1998) 2.58

Nitriding iron at lower temperatures. Science (2003) 2.55

A high-density integrated genetic linkage and radiation hybrid map of the laboratory rat. Genome Res (1999) 2.49

Diverse forms of a receptor for acidic and basic fibroblast growth factors. Mol Cell Biol (1990) 2.33

Deafness and imbalance associated with inactivation of the secretory Na-K-2Cl co-transporter. Nat Genet (1999) 2.20

Recombinant rat CBF-C, the third subunit of CBF/NFY, allows formation of a protein-DNA complex with CBF-A and CBF-B and with yeast HAP2 and HAP3. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1995) 2.17

Molecular cloning and identification of a receptor-type protein tyrosine phosphatase, IA-2, from human insulinoma. DNA Cell Biol (1994) 2.13

Osteoprotegerin ligand modulates murine osteoclast survival in vitro and in vivo. Am J Pathol (2000) 2.12

Atomistic free-volume zones and inelastic deformation of metallic glasses. Nat Mater (2010) 2.08

Simultaneous shotgun sequencing of multiple cDNA clones. DNA Seq (1997) 2.04

Increasing risk of great floods in a changing climate. Nature (2002) 1.96

IA-1, a new marker for neuroendocrine differentiation in human lung cancer cell lines. Cancer Res (1993) 1.96

The anxiolytic effect of Bifidobacterium longum NCC3001 involves vagal pathways for gut-brain communication. Neurogastroenterol Motil (2011) 1.93

LIGHT, a novel ligand for lymphotoxin beta receptor and TR2/HVEM induces apoptosis and suppresses in vivo tumor formation via gene transfer. J Clin Invest (1998) 1.89

Orexin (hypocretin) neurons contain dynorphin. J Neurosci (2001) 1.84

Variations in KCNQ1 are associated with type 2 diabetes and beta cell function in a Chinese population. Diabetologia (2009) 1.83

Requirement of the histone demethylase LSD1 in Snai1-mediated transcriptional repression during epithelial-mesenchymal transition. Oncogene (2010) 1.80

A hierarchy of SSB protomers in replication protein A. Genes Dev (1996) 1.80

Soluble beta-amyloid1-40 induces NMDA-dependent degradation of postsynaptic density-95 at glutamatergic synapses. J Neurosci (2005) 1.78

Specific interaction of the PDZ domain protein PICK1 with the COOH terminus of protein kinase C-alpha. J Biol Chem (1997) 1.78

Analysis of ten Brucella genomes reveals evidence for horizontal gene transfer despite a preferred intracellular lifestyle. J Bacteriol (2009) 1.76

Electrophoretically uniform fluorescent dyes for automated DNA sequencing. Science (1996) 1.75

Caspases as key executors of methyl selenium-induced apoptosis (anoikis) of DU-145 prostate cancer cells. Cancer Res (2001) 1.74

Survival advantage from higher-dose radiation therapy for clinically localized prostate cancer treated on the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group trials. J Clin Oncol (2000) 1.71

A gene-rich cluster between the CD4 and triosephosphate isomerase genes at human chromosome 12p13. Genome Res (1996) 1.66

A role for serum response factor in coronary smooth muscle differentiation from proepicardial cells. Development (1999) 1.62

An oncogenic role of miR-142-3p in human T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) by targeting glucocorticoid receptor-α and cAMP/PKA pathways. Leukemia (2011) 1.61

Search for supersymmetry using final states with one lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in √s=7 TeV pp collisions. Phys Rev Lett (2011) 1.60

Wavelet transform domain filters: a spatially selective noise filtration technique. IEEE Trans Image Process (1994) 1.60

Hypoxia-associated induction of early growth response-1 gene expression. J Biol Chem (1999) 1.60

beta-catenin in epithelial morphogenesis: conversion of part of avian foot scales into feather buds with a mutated beta-catenin. Dev Biol (2000) 1.59

Effects of blood pressure lowering and intensive glucose control on the incidence and progression of retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomised controlled trial. Diabetologia (2009) 1.59

De-regulation of GRP stress protein expression in human breast cancer cell lines. Breast Cancer Res Treat (1999) 1.57

"Medical oophorectomy" using a long-acting GNRH agonist--a possible new approach to the treatment of endometriosis. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (1982) 1.57

Space and time in the nucleus: developmental control of replication timing and chromosome architecture. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol (2010) 1.57

Chemoprevention of esophageal tumorigenesis by dietary administration of lyophilized black raspberries. Cancer Res (2001) 1.56

Severity of leukoaraiosis correlates with clinical outcome after ischemic stroke. Neurology (2009) 1.56

COPD in Chinese nonsmokers. Eur Respir J (2009) 1.52

Positive and negative regulation of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor promoter activity by AML1-related transcription factor, PEBP2. Blood (1995) 1.48

Predicting long-term survival, and the need for hormonal therapy: a meta-analysis of RTOG prostate cancer trials. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys (2000) 1.47

Gliadin-dependent neuromuscular and epithelial secretory responses in gluten-sensitive HLA-DQ8 transgenic mice. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol (2007) 1.42

Observation of a centrality-dependent dijet asymmetry in lead-lead collisions at sqrt[S(NN)] =2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Phys Rev Lett (2010) 1.41

Requirement for cell-to-cell contact in Epstein-Barr virus infection of nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells and keratinocytes. J Virol (1999) 1.41

Four prognostic groups predict long-term survival from prostate cancer following radiotherapy alone on Radiation Therapy Oncology Group clinical trials. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys (2000) 1.40

Salicylate increases the gain of the central auditory system. Neuroscience (2008) 1.40

Measurement of dijet azimuthal decorrelations in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7  TeV. Phys Rev Lett (2011) 1.39

Toxicokinetics and biochemistry of cadmium with special emphasis on the role of metallothionein. Neurotoxicology (1998) 1.38

A model of a segmental oscillator in the leech heartbeat neuronal network. J Comput Neurosci (2001) 1.36

Human L-ficolin: plasma levels, sugar specificity, and assignment of its lectin activity to the fibrinogen-like (FBG) domain. FEBS Lett (1998) 1.35

Heterologous dimerization domains functionally substitute for the double-stranded RNA binding domains of the kinase PKR. EMBO J (2001) 1.35

Altered LKB1/CREB-regulated transcription co-activator (CRTC) signaling axis promotes esophageal cancer cell migration and invasion. Oncogene (2011) 1.32

Search for new particles in two-jet final states in 7 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Phys Rev Lett (2010) 1.32

ARK, the Apaf-1 related killer in Drosophila, requires diverse domains for its apoptotic activity. Cell Death Differ (2006) 1.32

Improvements on the purification of mannan-binding lectin and demonstration of its Ca(2+)-independent association with a C1s-like serine protease. Biochem J (1996) 1.30

VEGI, a novel cytokine of the tumor necrosis factor family, is an angiogenesis inhibitor that suppresses the growth of colon carcinomas in vivo. FASEB J (1999) 1.29

Sulfone metabolite of sulindac inhibits mammary carcinogenesis. Cancer Res (1997) 1.28

Dextran sulfate sodium-induced colonic histopathology, but not altered epithelial ion transport, is reduced by inhibition of phosphodiesterase activity. Am J Pathol (2000) 1.26

The endoplasmic reticulum chaperone glycoprotein GRP94 with Ca(2+)-binding and antiapoptotic properties is a novel proteolytic target of calpain during etoposide-induced apoptosis. J Biol Chem (1999) 1.24

Differential roles of NMDA and non-NMDA receptor activation in induction and maintenance of thermal hyperalgesia in rats with painful peripheral mononeuropathy. Brain Res (1992) 1.23

A novel transcript encoding an N-terminally truncated AML1/PEBP2 alphaB protein interferes with transactivation and blocks granulocytic differentiation of 32Dcl3 myeloid cells. Mol Cell Biol (1997) 1.22

The Cys-rich region of hepatitis A virus cellular receptor 1 is required for binding of hepatitis A virus and protective monoclonal antibody 190/4. J Virol (1998) 1.21

Pseudosubstrate inhibition of protein kinase PKR by swine pox virus C8L gene product. Virology (2000) 1.21

Direct targeting of hippocampal neurons for apoptosis by glucocorticoids is reversible by mineralocorticoid receptor activation. Mol Psychiatry (2005) 1.19

M-ficolin is expressed on monocytes and is a lectin binding to N-acetyl-D-glucosamine and mediates monocyte adhesion and phagocytosis of Escherichia coli. Immunology (2000) 1.18

Vulnerability of the sympathetic trunk during the anterior approach to the lower cervical spine. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) (2000) 1.17

Characterization and chromosomal localization of a new protein disulfide isomerase, PDIp, highly expressed in human pancreas. DNA Cell Biol (1996) 1.17

Arsenite-inducible RNA-associated protein (AIRAP) protects cells from arsenite toxicity. Cell Stress Chaperones (2001) 1.17

Multiple cleavage activities of endonuclease V from Thermotoga maritima: recognition and strand nicking mechanism. Biochemistry (2001) 1.17

Blood-retinal barrier disruption and ultrastructural changes in the hypoxic retina in adult rats: the beneficial effect of melatonin administration. J Pathol (2007) 1.17

Abnormal expression of hepatoma specific gamma-glutamyl transferase and alteration of gamma-glutamyl transferase gene methylation status in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. Cancer (2000) 1.17

Radiographic and CT evaluation of tibiofibular syndesmotic diastasis: a cadaver study. Foot Ankle Int (1997) 1.16

Genetic tuning of the novel avian influenza A(H7N9) virus during interspecies transmission, China, 2013. Euro Surveill (2014) 1.16

The Upper Midwest Health Study: a case-control study of primary intracranial gliomas in farm and rural residents. J Agric Saf Health (2006) 1.15

Profile of cytokine expression in nasopharyngeal carcinomas: a distinct expression of interleukin 1 in tumor and CD4+ T cells. Cancer Res (1999) 1.15

Endothelial progenitor cells' "homing" specificity to brain tumors. Gene Ther (2004) 1.14

Müller glial cells express nestin coupled with glial fibrillary acidic protein in experimentally induced glaucoma in the rat retina. Neuroscience (2006) 1.14

Glucocorticoids and histone deacetylase inhibitors cooperate to block the invasiveness of basal-like breast cancer cells through novel mechanisms. Oncogene (2012) 1.14

Selenium-induced inhibition of angiogenesis in mammary cancer at chemopreventive levels of intake. Mol Carcinog (1999) 1.13

Identification of regions in the Moloney murine leukemia virus SU protein that tolerate the insertion of an integrin-binding peptide. Virology (2000) 1.13

Anisotropic electronic state via spontaneous phase separation in strained vanadium dioxide films. Phys Rev Lett (2013) 1.12

The MEF2A 3' untranslated region functions as a cis-acting translational repressor. Mol Cell Biol (1997) 1.12