Most of the African continent is semi-arid and hence prone to extreme variations in rainfall
from year to year. The extreme droughts that have plagued the Sahel and eastern Africa are …

The Madden–Julian oscillation exerts broad influences on global weather and climate as its
center of convection moves from the tropical Indian Ocean into the Pacific. Weather events …

Abstract The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is the dominant mode of sub-seasonal
climate variability in the global tropics. As such it represents an opportunity for intra …

Eastern Africa, classically presented as a major dry climate anomaly region in the otherwise
wet equatorial belt, is a transition zone between the monsoon domains of West Africa and …

Ecosystem sensitivity to climate variability varies across East Africa, and identifying the
determinant factors of this sensitivity is crucial to assessing region‐wide vulnerability to …

This paper evaluates nine satellite rainfall products and the Global Precipitation Centre
Climatology (GPCC) gauge dataset over the Congo basin. For the evaluation the reference …

Low-latitude rainfall variability on the daily to intraseasonal time scale is often related to
tropical waves, including convectively coupled equatorial waves, the Madden–Julian …

This study reports a multi-year (2000–2009) aerosol characterization for metropolitan
Tehran and surrounding areas using multiple datasets (Moderate Resolution Imaging …

The rains of October and November 2019 brought disaster to much of equatorial Africa. In
East Africa tremendous rains triggered flooding and landslides in Kenya, causing over 100 …

Extreme precipitation heavily affects society and economy in Africa because it triggers
natural hazards and contributes large amounts of freshwater. Understanding past changes …