Advances, gaps and way forward in provision of climate services over the Greater Horn of Africa

M Gudoshava, G Otieno, E Koech, H Misiani… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The Greater Horn of Africa is prone to extreme climatic conditions, thus, making climate
services increasingly important in supporting decision-making processes across a range of …

Important drivers of East African monsoon variability and improving rainy season onset prediction

I Roy, M Mliwa, A Troccoli - Natural Hazards, 2024 - Springer
Monsoon rain and its year-to-year variability have a profound influence on Africa's socio-
economic structure by heavily impacting sectors such as agricultural and energy. This study …

Variability of rainy season onsets over East Africa

E Mwangi, D MacLeod, D Kniveton… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Over the East Africa region forecasts of the onset of the rainy seasons have the
potential to support decision‐making, especially in the largely rain‐fed agricultural sector …

[HTML][HTML] Rainy season onset date in Southwest China and the related atmospheric circulations

C Wu, Q Li, L Dong, H Yan, D Wang, X Sun - Atmospheric Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The rainy season onset date (RSOD) in the Southwest China (SWC) has important guiding
significance for agricultural planting, and the abnormal RSOD is easy to cause drought or …

Understanding CMIP6 biases in the representation of the Greater Horn of Africa long and short rains

K Schwarzwald, L Goddard, R Seager, M Ting… - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
The societies of the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) are vulnerable to variability in two distinct
rainy seasons, the March–May 'long'rains and the October–December 'short'rains. Recent …

Beyond the regional average: Drivers of geographical rainfall variability during East Africa's short rains

EW Kolstad, DJ Parker, DA MacLeod… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The East African “short rains” from October–December (OND) are crucial for the
region's cultural and agricultural landscape. Traditional climate studies have often treated …

[HTML][HTML] Landcover Change Amidst Climate Change in the Lake Tana Basin (Ethiopia): Insights from 37 Years of Earth Observation on Landcover–Rainfall Interactions

ST Fofang, EB Mukama, AA Adem, S Dondeyne - Remote Sensing, 2025 - mdpi.com
Land use/landcover (LULC) changes and climate variability impact soil erosion; however,
their combined long-term effects are poorly studied. Using remote sensing data, this study …

Regime shifts of the wet and dry seasons in the tropics under global warming

J Guo, S Hu, Y Guan - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The main seasonal characteristics in the tropics include both spatial patterns and temporal
parameters of onset, cessation, duration, and the number of wet and dry seasons. Previous …

Probabilistic rainy season onset prediction over the greater horn of africa based on long-range multi-model ensemble forecasts

M Scheuerer, TK Bahaga, ZT Segele… - Climate Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
This works proposes a probabilistic framework for rainy season onset forecasts over Greater
Horn of Africa derived from bias-corrected, long range, multi-model ensemble precipitation …

[PDF][PDF] Analysis of Rainfall Spatiotemporal Variability and Its Impact on Livelihood in Marsabit, Kenya.

AM Galwab, OK Koech, OV Wasonga… - East African Agricultural …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Regardless of geographical location, climate variability significantly influences the success
or loss of agricultural production as a source of income worldwide. As a result, this research …