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English: Rainfall regimes vary across Ethiopia. a) Annual average rainfall (mm/day) from CHIRPS data. b) Areas in green have two distinct rainy seasons (Feb to May, Oct to Nov); Areas in red see rain Feb to Nov with a single peak in rainfall Jun to Sept; Areas in purple have rain Feb to Nov with two peaks in rainfall Mar to May and Jun to Sept. Full caption of Figure 3 from the open access report: "Rainfall in Ethiopia. a) Annual average rainfall in mm/day with the interquartile range (25th–75th) of monthly rainfall in mm/day (indicated by black contours). b) Rainfall zones in Ethiopia. Red and purple zones have a Kiremt season (JJAS>MAM), the green zone has a significant short rains season like the bimodal East African climate, and the blue and purple region has a distinct Belg and Kiremt season with J<MAM and MAM<JAS rainfall. All rainfall from CHIRPSv2.0 1981–2020." First published in Murgatroyd, A., Charles, K.J., Chautard, A., Dyer, E., Grasham, C., Hope, R., Hoque, S.F., Korzenevica, M., Munday, C., Alvarez-Sala, J., Dadson, S., Hall, J.W., Kebede, S., Nileshwar, A., Olago, D., Salehin, M., Ward, F., Washington, R., Yeo, D. and Zeleke, G. (2021). Water Security for Climate Resilience Report: A synthesis of research from the Oxford University REACH programme. University of Oxford, UK: REACH. |