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Storm instigation from below

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The relationship between soil moisture and rainfall has proved tricky to pin down. An analysis of close to 4,000 Sahelian storms suggests that certain soil-moisture patterns enhance the likelihood of rainfall.

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Figure 1: Rainfall over the Sahel.

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  1. Randal D. Koster is in the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA,

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