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Fig. 7 Observed and projected changes in annual average temperature in Africa (Niang et al. 2014)
Fig. 8 Observed and projected changes in annual average precipitation in Africa (Niang et al. 2014)
Projecting rainfall changes associated with climate change in Africa is more
difficult as there is no agreement between all the different climate models.
3 Key
projections indicate
– very likely decreases in mean annual precipitation over southern Africa and the
Mediterranean region of northern Africa in the mid- and late-twenty-first- century
periods;
3 Over two-thirds of models for the African continent do not indicate changes in mean annual
precipitation that exceed the baseline variability of the models for mid- or late twenty-first-century
periods for RCP2.6 (Niang et al. 2014).