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 …

The West African Sahel: A review of recent studies on the rainfall regime and its interannual variability

SE Nicholson - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
The West African Sahel is well known for the severe droughts that ravaged the region in the
1970s and 1980s. Meteorological research on the region has flourished during the last …

A meteorological and chemical overview of the DACCIWA field campaign in West Africa in June–July 2016

P Knippertz, AH Fink, A Deroubaix… - Atmospheric …, 2017‏ - acp.copernicus.org
In June and July 2016 the Dynamics–Aerosol–Chemistry–Cloud Interactions in West Africa
(DACCIWA) project organised a major international field campaign in southern West Africa …

Recent climatological trend of the Saharan heat low and its impact on the West African climate

C Lavaysse, C Flamant, A Evan, S Janicot, M Gaetani - Climate Dynamics, 2016‏ - Springer
The Saharan heat low (SHL) plays a pivotal role in the West African monsoon system in
spring and summer. The recent trend in SHL activity has been analysed using two sets of …

Madden-Julian Oscillation impacts on tropical African precipitation

BF Zaitchik - Atmospheric Research, 2017‏ - Elsevier
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 …

Subseasonal predictability of boreal summer monsoon rainfall from ensemble forecasts

N Vigaud, AW Robertson, MK Tippett… - Frontiers in …, 2017‏ - frontiersin.org
Subseasonal forecast skill over the broadly defined North American (NAM), West African
(WAM) and Asian (AM) summer monsoon regions is investigated using three Ensemble …

The Madden–Julian oscillation's influence on spring rainy season precipitation over equatorial West Africa

F Berhane, B Zaitchik, HS Badr - Journal of Climate, 2015‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper characterizes the influence of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) on spring
rainy season (March–June) convection variability over equatorial West Africa (EWA) and …

The East African monsoon system: seasonal climatologies and recent variations

C Funk, A Hoell, S Shukla, G Husak… - The monsoons and …, 2016‏ - Springer
This chapter briefly reviews the complex climatological cycle of the East African monsoon
system, paying special attention to its connection to the larger Indo-Pacific-Asian monsoon …

Intraseasonal synchronization of extreme rainfall between North India and the Sahel

FM Strnad, KMR Hunt, N Boers… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) and the West African Monsoon (WAM) are
dominant drivers of boreal summer precipitation variability in tropical and subtropical …

Convection activity over the Guinean coast and Central Africa during northern spring from synoptic to intra-seasonal timescales

PH Kamsu-Tamo, S Janicot, D Monkam, A Lenouo - Climate dynamics, 2014‏ - Springer
This study proposes an overview of the main synoptic, medium-range and intraseasonal
modes of convection and precipitation in northern spring (March–June 1979–2010) over …