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Contract farming and rural transformation: Evidence from a field experiment in Benin by Arouna, Aminou, Michler, Jeffrey D., Lokossou, Jourdain C.

“…Contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination in developing country agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on…”
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A protocol for calculating basal melt rates in the ISMIP6 Antarctic ice sheet projections by Jourdain, Nicolas C, Asay-Davis, Xylar, Hattermann, Tore, Straneo, Fiammetta, Seroussi, Hélène, Little, Christopher M, Nowicki, Sophie

“…Climate model projections have previously been used to compute ice shelf basal melt rates in ice sheet models, but the strategies employed – e.g., ocean input,…”
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Climate Drift in the CMIP5 Models by Sen Gupta, Alexander, Jourdain, Nicolas C., Brown, Jaclyn N., Monselesan, Didier

“…Climate models often exhibit spurious long-term changes independent of either internal variability or changes to external forcing. Such changes, referred to as…”
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Assessment of sub-shelf melting parameterisations using the ocean–ice-sheet coupled model NEMO(v3.6)–Elmer/Ice(v8.3) by Favier, Lionel, Jourdain, Nicolas C., Jenkins, Adrian, Merino, Nacho, Durand, Gaël, Gagliardini, Olivier, Gillet-Chaulet, Fabien, Mathiot, Pierre

“…Oceanic melting beneath ice shelves is the main driver of the current mass loss of the Antarctic ice sheet and is mostly parameterised in stand-alone ice-sheet…”
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Adoption of climate-resilient groundnut varieties increases agricultural production, consumption, and smallholder commercialization in West Africa by Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr, Lokossou, Jourdain C., Gebrekidan, Bisrat, Affognon, Hippolyte D.

“…As part of the climate-smart agriculture approach, the adoption of climate-resilient crop varieties has the potential to build farmers’ climate resilience but…”
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An experimental evidence of steadily-rotating overdriven detonation by Rodriguez, V., Jourdain, C., Vidal, P., Zitoun, R.

“…This experimental work reports on detonation behaviors in a curved chamber without inner wall after diffraction of a Chapman–Jouguet (CJ) detonation from a…”
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Southern Ocean warming and Antarctic ice shelf melting in conditions plausible by late 23rd century in a high-end scenario by Mathiot, Pierre, Jourdain, Nicolas C

“…How much Antarctic ice shelf basal melt rates can increase in response to global warming remains an open question. Here we describe the response of the…”
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Farmer advisory systems and pesticide use in legume-based systems in West Africa by Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr, Nyam, Yong Sebastian, Lokossou, Jourdain C., Gebrekidan, Bisrat Haile

“…Despite the adverse effects of pesticides on the environment and human health, they are a key ingredient in boosting agricultural productivity as a way of…”
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An assessment of basal melt parameterisations for Antarctic ice shelves by Burgard, Clara, Jourdain, Nicolas C, Reese, Ronja, Jenkins, Adrian, Mathiot, Pierre

“…Ocean-induced ice-shelf melt is one of the largest uncertainty factors in the Antarctic contribution to future sea-level rise. Several parameterisations exist,…”
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Rapid subsurface warming and circulation changes of Antarctic coastal waters by poleward shifting winds by Spence, Paul, Griffies, Stephen M., England, Matthew H., Hogg, Andrew McC, Saenko, Oleg A., Jourdain, Nicolas C.

“…The southern hemisphere westerly winds have been strengthening and shifting poleward since the 1950s. This wind trend is projected to persist under continued…”
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Diverging future surface mass balance between the Antarctic ice shelves and grounded ice sheet by Kittel, Christoph, Amory, Charles, Agosta, Cécile, Jourdain, Nicolas C, Hofer, Stefan, Delhasse, Alison, Doutreloup, Sébastien, Huot, Pierre-Vincent, Lang, Charlotte, Fichefet, Thierry, Fettweis, Xavier

“…The future surface mass balance (SMB) will influence the ice dynamics and the contribution of the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) to the sea level rise. Most of…”
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Contrasting seasonal changes in total and intense precipitation in the European Alps from 1903 to 2010 by Ménégoz, Martin, Valla, Evgenia, Jourdain, Nicolas C, Blanchet, Juliette, Beaumet, Julien, Wilhelm, Bruno, Gallée, Hubert, Fettweis, Xavier, Morin, Samuel, Anquetin, Sandrine

“…Changes in precipitation over the European Alps are investigated with the regional climate model MAR (Modèle Atmosphérique Régional) applied with a 7 km…”
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CMIP5 model selection for ISMIP6 ice sheet model forcing: Greenland and Antarctica by Barthel, Alice, Agosta, Cécile, Little, Christopher M, Hattermann, Tore, Jourdain, Nicolas C, Goelzer, Heiko, Nowicki, Sophie, Seroussi, Helene, Straneo, Fiammetta, Bracegirdle, Thomas J

“…The ice sheet model intercomparison project for CMIP6 (ISMIP6) effort brings together the ice sheet and climate modeling communities to gain understanding of…”
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Cold Tongue and Warm Pool ENSO Events in CMIP5: Mean State and Future Projections by Taschetto, Andréa S., Sen Gupta, Alexander, Jourdain, Nicolas C., Santoso, Agus, Ummenhofer, Caroline C., England, Matthew H.

“…The representation of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) under historical forcing and future projections is analyzed in 34 models from the Coupled Model…”
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Antarctic icebergs melt over the Southern Ocean: Climatology and impact on sea ice by Merino, Nacho, Le Sommer, Julien, Durand, Gael, Jourdain, Nicolas C., Madec, Gurvan, Mathiot, Pierre, Tournadre, Jean

“…•The Antarctic iceberg freshwater flux is estimated with a sea ice/ocean/iceberg model.•Including vertical profiles of ocean currents improves modelled iceberg…”
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The Indo-Australian monsoon and its relationship to ENSO and IOD in reanalysis data and the CMIP3/CMIP5 simulations by Jourdain, Nicolas C., Gupta, Alexander Sen, Taschetto, Andréa S., Ummenhofer, Caroline C., Moise, Aurel F., Ashok, Karumuri

“…A large spread exists in both Indian and Australian average monsoon rainfall and in their interannual variations diagnosed from various observational and…”
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Rapid disintegration and weakening of ice shelves in North Greenland by Millan, R., Jager, E., Mouginot, J., Wood, M. H., Larsen, S. H., Mathiot, P., Jourdain, N. C., Bjørk, A.

“…The glaciers of North Greenland are hosting enough ice to raise sea level by 2.1 m, and have long considered to be stable. This part of Greenland is buttressed…”
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ISMIP6-based projections of ocean-forced Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution using the Community Ice Sheet Model by Lipscomb, William H, Leguy, Gunter R, Jourdain, Nicolas C, Asay-Davis, Xylar, Seroussi, Hélène, Nowicki, Sophie

“…The future retreat rate for marine-based regions of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is one of the largest uncertainties in sea-level projections. The Ice Sheet Model…”
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Processes setting the characteristics of sea surface cooling induced by tropical cyclones by Vincent, Emmanuel M., Lengaigne, Matthieu, Madec, Gurvan, Vialard, Jérôme, Samson, Guillaume, Jourdain, Nicolas C., Menkes, Christophe E., Jullien, Swen

“…A 1/2° resolution global ocean general circulation model is used to investigate the processes controlling sea surface cooling in the wake of tropical cyclones…”
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Assessing the oceanic control on the amplitude of sea surface cooling induced by tropical cyclones by Vincent, Emmanuel M., Lengaigne, Matthieu, Vialard, Jérôme, Madec, Gurvan, Jourdain, Nicolas C., Masson, Sébastien

“…Tropical cyclones (TCs) induce sea surface cooling that feeds back negatively on their intensity. Previous studies indicate that the cooling magnitude depends…”
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