Publications

• Giannini, A., 2010. Mechanisms of climate change in the semi-arid African Sahel: the local view. J. Climate, 23, 743-756

• Greene, A. M., A. Giannini and S. E. Zebiak, 2009. Drought return times in the Sahel: A question of attribution. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L12701, doi:10.1029/2009GL038868 pdf file

• Giannini, A., M. Biasutti and M. M. Verstraete, 2008. A climate model-based review of drought in the Sahel: Desertification, the re-greening and climate change. Global Planetary Change, 64, 119-128, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.05.004 pdf file

• Giannini, A., M. Biasutti, I. M. Held and A. H. Sobel, 2008. A global perspective on African climate. Climatic Change, doi:10.1007/s10584-008-9396-y The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com pdf file

• Biasutti, M., I. M. Held, A. H. Sobel and A. Giannini, 2008. SST forcings and Sahel rainfall variability in simulations of the 20th and 21st centuries. J. Climate, 21, 3471-3486, doi:10.1175/2007JCLI1896.1 pdf file

• Giannini, A., A. W. Robertson, and J.-H. Qian, 2007. A role for tropical tropospheric temperature adjustment to ENSO in the seasonality of monsoonal Indonesia precipitation predictability. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 112, D16110, doi:10.1029/2007JD008519 pdf file

• Ceccato, P., K. Cressman, A. Giannini and S. Trzaska, 2007. The desert locust upsurge in West Africa (2003-2005): Information on the desert locust early warning system and the prospects for seasonal climate forecasting. Int. J. Pest Management, 53, 7-13, doi: 10.1080/09670870600968826

• Biasutti, M. and A. Giannini, 2006. Robust Sahel drying in response to late 20th century forcings. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L11706, doi:10.1029/2006GL026067 pdf file

• Tippett, M. K. and A. Giannini, 2006. Potentially predictable components of African summer rainfall in a SST-forced GCM simulation. J. Climate, 19, 3133-3144, doi: 10.1175/JCLI3779.1 pdf file

• Giannini, A., R. Saravanan and P. Chang, 2005. Dynamics of the boreal summer African monsoon in the NSIPP1 atmospheric model. Climate Dynamics, 25, 517-535 doi:10.1007/s00382-005-0056-x. Published online: 13 August 2005 pdf file

• Barreiro, M., P. Chang, L. Ji, R. Saravanan and A. Giannini, 2005. Dynamical elements of predicting boreal spring Tropical Atlantic sea-surface temperatures. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 39(1-2), 61-85. Available online: 1 February 2005

• Seager, R., A. R. Karspeck, M. A. Cane, Y. Kushnir, A. Giannini, A. Kaplan, B. Kerman and J. Velez, 2004. Predicting Pacific Decadal variability. In Earth climate. The ocean-atmosphere interaction, C. Wang, S.-P. Xie and J. A. Carton, Eds. AGU Geophysical Monograph, 147, 105-120. American Geophysical Union pdf file

• Barreiro, M., A. Giannini, P. Chang and R. Saravanan, 2004. On the role of the South Atlantic atmospheric circulation in Tropical Atlantic Variability. In Earth climate. The ocean-atmosphere interaction, C. Wang, S.-P. Xie and J. A. Carton, Eds. AGU Geophysical Monograph, 147, 143-156. American Geophysical Union.

• Giannini, A., R. Saravanan and P. Chang, 2004. The preconditioning role of Tropical Atlantic Variability in the development of the ENSO teleconnection: implications for the prediction of Nordeste rainfall. Climate Dynamics, 22, 839-855. Published online: 12 May 2004 pdf file

• Giannini, A., R. Saravanan and P. Chang, 2003. Oceanic forcing of Sahel rainfall on interannual to interdecadal timescales. Science, 302, 1027-1030. Published online 9 October 2003. 10.1126/science.1089357 pdf file. Read commentaries by Richard A. Kerr pdf file and Ning Zeng pdf file in Science.

• Chiang, J. C. H., Y. Kushnir and A. Giannini, 2002. Deconstructing Atlantic ITCZ variability: influence of the local cross-equatorial SST gradient, and remote forcing from the eastern equatorial Pacific. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmospheres, 107(D1), 4004, doi:10.1029/2000JD000307 pdf file

• Giannini, A., J. C. H. Chiang, M. A. Cane, Y. Kushnir and R. Seager, 2001. The ENSO teleconnection to the tropical Atlantic Ocean: contributions of the remote and local SSTs to rainfall variability in the tropical Americas. J. Climate, 14, 4530-4544 pdf file

• Giannini, A., M. A. Cane and Y. Kushnir, 2001. Interdecadal changes in the ENSO teleconnection to the Caribbean region and the North Atlantic Oscillation. J. Climate, 14, 2867-2879 pdf file

• Giannini, A., Y. Kushnir and M. A. Cane, 2001. Seasonality in the impact of ENSO and the North Atlantic High on Caribbean rainfall. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (B), 26(2), 143-147 pdf file

• Giannini, A., Y. Kushnir and M. A. Cane, 2000. Interannual variability of Caribbean rainfall, ENSO and the Atlantic Ocean. J. Climate, 13, 297-311 pdf file

• Corti, S., A. Giannini, S. Tibaldi and F. Molteni, 1997. Patterns of low-frequency variability in a three-level quasi-geostrophic model. Climate Dynamics, 13, 883-904 pdf file