Climate model shows large-scale wind and solar farms in the Sahara increase rain and vegetation
Jorge R Rivas1, Yan Li2,3, Eugenia Kalnay2,4, Safa Motesharrei4,5, Fred Kucharski6, Daniel B Kirk-Davidoff7, Eviatar Bach2,8 and Ning Zeng9,10, (1)Self Employed, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Urbana, United States, (4)University of Maryland, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, College Park, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Earth Physics Section, Trieste, Italy, (7)UL Renewables, Albany, NY, United States, (8)University of Maryland, Institute for Physical Science and Technology,, College Park, United States, (9)University of Maryland, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, China, (10)Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China
