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Global warming is a worldwide phenomenon with disastrous implications ranging from ocean warming and glacier melting to sea level rise and coastal damage. In recent decades, the majority of the world's coastal countries ...
Responding to the threats of climate change by cities requires taking relevant actions that will communicate future conditions in reliable and effective manner for sustainable and transformational climate actions. As the ...
Dust storms over North Africa represent a critical component of the regional and global climate
system, influencing radiation balance, precipitation processes, ecosystem functioning, and human
health. Despite their ...
The Ocean and Atmosphere interaction is a complex system that requires particular attention in coastal upwelling systems due to their nutrient supply, biological productivity, influence on local weather patterns and regional ...
Thunderstorms provide essential precipitation for agriculture and other economic activities in the tropics. Accurate forecasting of thunderstorm variability and precipitation forecasting over West Africa is vital for ...
This study aimed to evaluate the ability of selected RCMs and GCMs of CORDEX-CORE in reproducing the spatio-temporal patterns of some climatic variables, analyse the future climate scenarios over West Africa sub-region and ...
Heatwaves have become a serious public health concern around the world in the last few decades. In the Sahel, specifically in Burkina Faso, very little research has been done on heatwaves and their impact on human health. ...
Intense multi-day wet spells, characterized by prolonged heavy rainfall, significantly influence West Africa’s hydroclimate, driving flood risks and shaping socio-economic vulnerabilities. However, their dynamics remain ...
The Atlantic Niño is the dominant mode of interannual sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the equatorial Atlantic, exerting a profound influence on modulating global and regional weather patterns, including West ...
Reducing discrepancies in the simulation of water and energy fluxes remains a key
challenge in accurately representing surface water flux processes, particularly in regions with
limited observational data. This study ...
Bacterial meningitis remains a significant public health concern in West Africa, where seasonal outbreaks are closely linked to environmental factors such as low humidity, high temperatures and exposure to Saharan dust. ...
In the context of increasing climate change and variability, reliable climate seasonal forecasts play critical role in agricultural planning. Recurring droughts, erratic rainfall, and limited adaptive capacity in the Sahel ...
Previous studies on climate change projections over West Africa did not include the influence of on-going forestation activities on future climate extremes over the region. The present study aimed to examine the potential ...
A lot of research has been done to understand and improve the relationship between
land use and land cover modification vis-a-vis their interaction with the West African
climate variability and climate change. However, ...
This research evaluates the ability of Weather Research and Forecasting model
physics in simulating the West African monsoon. The purpose is to identify a possible
model physics combinations in the WRF model whose outputs ...
Land Use Land Cover (LULC) in Sub-Sahara Africa has undergone rapid transformation
in the last century. So comprehending the impact of land use land cover change and its
interaction with the atmosphere by means of modeling, ...
This study provides baseline data and analyses of the evolution of carbon dioxide emissions in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector in Ghana, focusing on the Bobiri Forest Reserve and fringe areas. ...
Rainfall is a major ingredient for economic development for most West African countries. It has serious implications on the socio-economic activities because more than 95% of its agricultural activities are rainfed and ...
Many West African countries are plagued with a poor electricity supply. However, an abundance of solar irradiance and sufficient wind speed over the region makes solar and wind energy attractive solutions to the problem, ...
This study investigates the potential impact of climate change and variability on electricity
demand under different Global Warming Levels (GWL1.5, GWL2.0, GWL2.5, and
GWL3.0). First, to assess the sensitivity of electricity ...