TY - BOOK AU - Yassmin Hesham Hanfi AU - Alaa Khalil , AU - Mohamed Magdy Abdelwahab , TI - Climate change outlook and its impact on drought in North Africa / PY - 2018/// CY - Cairo : PB - Yassmin Hesham Hanfi , KW - Climate changes KW - Drought KW - North Africa N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Science - Department of Meteorology and Astronomy; Issued also as CD N2 - Climate change represents one of the most serious and far-reaching challenges facing humankind in the twenty-first Century. North Africa is vulnerable to climate change impacts. Scenarios predict an average rise in annual temperatures, higher than the average expected for the planet. The present study aims to provide a comprehensive analysis to the historical and the projected future climate change in North Africa, study the projected extreme climate events, and the impact of climate change on drought in North Africa. The results indicated that the heat indices would then be more numerous, longer and more intense. Also, it{u2019}s marked to North Africa would be particularly affected by droughts that would be more frequent, more intense and longer-lasting UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -