Agriculture in West Africa in the twenty-first century: climate change and impacts scenarios, and potential for adaptation

B Sultan, M Gaetani - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
West Africa is known to be particularly vulnerable to climate change due to high climate
variability, high reliance on rain-fed agriculture, and limited economic and institutional …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

[HTML][HTML] High resolution model intercomparison project (HighResMIP v1. 0) for CMIP6

RJ Haarsma, MJ Roberts, PL Vidale… - Geoscientific Model …, 2016 - gmd.copernicus.org
Robust projections and predictions of climate variability and change, particularly at regional
scales, rely on the driving processes being represented with fidelity in model simulations …

What can we know about future precipitation in Africa? Robustness, significance and added value of projections from a large ensemble of regional climate models

A Dosio, RG Jones, C Jack, C Lennard, G Nikulin… - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
We employ a large ensemble of Regional Climate Models (RCMs) from the COordinated
Regional-climate Downscaling EXperiment to explore two questions:(1) what can we know …

Analysis of compound climate extremes and exposed population in Africa under two different emission scenarios

T Weber, P Bowyer, D Rechid, S Pfeifer… - Earth's …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
It is well established that Africa is particularly exposed to climate extremes including heat
waves, droughts, and intense rainfall events. How exposed Africa is to the co‐occurrence of …

Evaluation of extreme precipitation indices over West Africa in CMIP6 models

A Faye, AA Akinsanola - Climate Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
In this study, the performance of sixteen Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6
(CMIP6) models in simulating extreme precipitation indices over West Africa has been …

Analyzing regional climate change in Africa in a 1.5, 2, and 3 C global warming world

T Weber, A Haensler, D Rechid, S Pfeifer… - Earth's …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
At the 21st session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris, an agreement to strengthen the effort to limit the …

The climatic analysis of summer monsoon extreme precipitation events over West Africa in CMIP6 simulations

NAB Klutse, KA Quagraine, F Nkrumah… - Earth Systems and …, 2021 - Springer
We evaluate the capability of 21 models from the new state-of-the-art Coupled Model
Intercomparison Project, Phase 6 (CMIP6) in the representation of present-day precipitation …

[HTML][HTML] Historical evaluations and simulations of precipitation over East Africa from Rossby centre regional climate model

B Ayugi, G Tan, GT Gnitou, M Ojara, V Ongoma - Atmospheric Research, 2020 - Elsevier
This study assesses the performance of ten Regional Climate Model (RCMs) from the latest
version of Rossby Centre of Atmospheric models (RCA4) in the simulation of precipitation …

Projections of West African summer monsoon rainfall extremes from two CORDEX models

AA Akinsanola, W Zhou - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
Global warming has a profound impact on the vulnerable environment of West Africa; hence,
robust climate projection, especially of rainfall extremes, is quite important. Based on two …