Competing roles of the fast and slow response in the total coupled West African precipitation response to anthropogenic aerosol forcing


Haruki Hirasawa1, Thomas Oudar1, Paul J Kushner2, Michael Sigmond3, John C Fyfe4 and Clara Deser5, (1)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)University of Toronto, Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria, BC, Canada, (4)Environment Canada, Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis, Victoria, BC, Canada, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, Boulder, CO, United States