[PDF][PDF] Relationships between rainfall and groundwater recharge in seasonally humid Benin: a comparative analysis of long-term hydrographs in sedimentary and …

D Kotchoni, JM Vouillamoz, F Lawson… - Hydrogeology …, 2018‏ - ird.hal.science
Groundwater is a vital source of freshwater throughout the tropics enabling access to safe
water for domestic, agricultural and industrial purposes close to the point of demand. The …

AMMA‐CATCH, a critical zone observatory in West Africa monitoring a region in transition

S Galle, M Grippa, C Peugeot, IB Moussa… - Vadose Zone …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Core Ideas AMMA‐CATCH is a long‐term critical zone observatory in West Africa. Four sites
sample the sharp ecoclimatic gradient characteristic of this region. Combined …

On the influence of vegetation cover changes and vegetation-runoff systems on the simulated summer potential evapotranspiration of tropical Africa using RegCM4

SA Anwar, O Mamadou, I Diallo, MB Sylla - Earth Systems and …, 2021‏ - Springer
The community land model version 4.5 provides two ways for treating the vegetation cover
changes (a static versus an interactive) and two runoff schemes for tracking the soil moisture …

Validation and field application of a low-cost device to measure CO and evapotranspiration (ET) fluxes

R Macagga, M Asante, G Sossa… - Atmospheric …, 2024‏ - amt.copernicus.org
Mitigating the global climate crisis and its consequences, such as more frequent and severe
droughts, is one of the major challenges for future agriculture. Therefore, identifying land use …

[HTML][HTML] Climate data records of vegetation variables from geostationary SEVIRI/MSG data: Products, algorithms and applications

FJ García-Haro, F Camacho, B Martínez… - Remote Sensing, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
The scientific community requires long-term data records with well-characterized uncertainty
and suitable for modeling terrestrial ecosystems and energy cycles at regional and global …

Testing the suitability of Marginal Distribution Sampling as a gap‐filling method using some meteorological data from seven sites in West Africa

DRR Koukoui, O Mamadou… - Meteorological …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Meteorological data are useful in many fields related to climate change studies and their use
often requires them to be continuous. To date, marginal distribution sampling (MDS), which …

Meteorological conditions and second-order moments of wind speed components over a nonuniform terrain in Dangbo, southeastern Benin

O Mamadou, A Mariscal, DRR Koukoui… - Meteorology and …, 2024‏ - Springer
We analyze in this work the second-order moments and turbulence intensities of wind speed
components during convective conditions over a non-uniform terrain in Dangbo, southeast …

Turbulence characteristics in the atmospheric surface layer over a heterogeneous cultivated surface in a tropical region

M Hounsinou, O Mamadou, B Kounouhewa - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2023‏ - Springer
The description of atmospheric turbulence on heterogeneous surfaces and more specifically
during stable stratification conditions, remains nowadays a relevant and open issue in …

Integral turbulence characteristics over a clear woodland forest in northern Benin (West Africa)

M Hounsinou, O Mamadou, M Wudba… - Atmospheric …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
This study aims at investigating whether the Integral Turbulence Characteristics (ITC) obey
the Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory (MOST) above a forest site in a Sudanian climate, and …

Hydrological functioning of western African inland valleys explored with a critical zone model

B Hector, JM Cohard, L Séguis, S Galle… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2018‏ - hess.copernicus.org
Inland valleys are seasonally waterlogged headwater wetlands, widespread across western
Africa. Their role in the hydrological cycle in the humid, hard-rock-dominated Sudanian …