Climate change over West Africa: Recent trends and future projections

MB Sylla, PM Nikiema, P Gibba, I Kebe… - Adaptation to climate …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The West African climate has evolved in recent decades to respond to elevated
anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) forcing. An assessment of its recent trends and future …

[HTML][HTML] Mesoscale convective systems and contributions to flood cases in southern west africa (swa): a systematic review

WA Atiah, LK Amekudzi, SK Danuor - Weather and Climate Extremes, 2023 - Elsevier
Flood-related fatalities and associated economic losses have increased in Southern West
Africa (SWA). The increased flood-associated damages highlighted the growing global …

[PDF][PDF] Climatology, annual cycle and interannual variability of precipitation and temperature in CORDEX simulations over West Africa.

E Gbobaniyi, A Sarr, MB Sylla, I Diallo… - International Journal …, 2014 - researchgate.net
We examine the ability of an ensemble of 10 Regional Climate Models (RCMs), driven by
ERA-Interim reanalysis, in skillfully reproducing key features of present-day precipitation and …

[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 …

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 …

Change detection and trend analysis of future temperature and rainfall over West Africa

OW Ilori, VO Ajayi - Earth systems and Environment, 2020 - Springer
This paper examined future trends with change detection in temperature and rainfall over
three agro-climatic zones of West Africa. Historical (1961–2000) and projection (2020–2099) …

Evaluation of rainfall simulations over West Africa in dynamically downscaled CMIP5 global circulation models

AA Akinsanola, VO Ajayi, AT Adejare… - Theoretical and applied …, 2018 - Springer
This study presents evaluation of the ability of Rossby Centre Regional Climate Model
(RCA4) driven by nine global circulation models (GCMs), to skilfully reproduce the key …

Projected changes of summer monsoon extremes and hydroclimatic regimes over West Africa for the twenty-first century

I Diallo, F Giorgi, A Deme, M Tall, L Mariotti, AT Gaye - Climate dynamics, 2016 - Springer
We use two CORDEX-Africa simulations performed with the regional model RegCM4 to
characterize the projected changes in extremes and hydroclimatic regimes associated with …

Projected changes in the annual cycle of high-intensity precipitation events over West Africa for the late twenty-first century

MB Sylla, F Giorgi, JS Pal, P Gibba, I Kebe… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
In this study, the response of the annual cycle of high-intensity daily precipitation events over
West Africa to anthropogenic greenhouse gas for the late twenty-first century is investigated …

Daily characteristics of West African summer monsoon precipitation in CORDEX simulations

NAB Klutse, MB Sylla, I Diallo, A Sarr, A Dosio… - Theoretical and applied …, 2016 - Springer
We analyze and intercompare the performance of a set of ten regional climate models
(RCMs) along with the ensemble mean of their statistics in simulating daily precipitation …