Emergence of seasonal delay of tropical rainfall during 1979–2019

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 June 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01066-x

Tropical rainfall exhibits cyclic north–south migration tracking the warmer hemisphere, and climate warming will delay this seasonally over land. Climate models and gridded precipitation data suggest a delay of about 4 days since 1979 is now detectable over Northern Hemisphere land and the Sahel.