Droughts in East Africa: Causes, impacts and resilience

GG Haile, Q Tang, S Sun, Z Huang, X Zhang, X Liu - Earth-science reviews, 2019‏ - Elsevier
East Africa (EA) has been the primary focus for various drought studies in recent years.
However, a comprehensive analysis of droughts, including their evolution, complexity, social …

On the use and misuse of climate change projections in international development

H Nissan, L Goddard, EC de Perez… - Wiley …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Climate resilience is increasingly prioritized by international development agencies and
national governments. However, current approaches to informing communities of future …

Long-term spatiotemporal variation of drought patterns over the Greater Horn of Africa

GG Haile, Q Tang, G Leng, G Jia, J Wang, D Cai… - Science of the Total …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Understanding historical patterns of changes in drought is essential for drought adaptation
and mitigation. While the negative impacts of drought in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) …

Frequent but predictable droughts in East Africa driven by a Walker circulation intensification

C Funk, AH Fink, L Harrison, Z Segele… - Earth's …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
During and after recent La Niña events, the decline of the eastern East African (EA) March‐
April‐May (MAM) rains has set the stage for life‐threatening sequential October‐November …

Assessing the impact of land use and climate change on surface runoff response using gridded observations and swat+

P Kiprotich, X Wei, Z Zhang, T Ngigi, F Qiu, L Wang - Hydrology, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
The Anthropocene period is characterised by a general demographic shift from rural
communities to urban centres that transform the predominantly wild global landscape into …

Climate drivers of vector-borne diseases in Africa and their relevance to control programmes

MC Thomson, ÁG Muñoz, R Cousin… - Infectious diseases of …, 2018‏ - mednexus.org
Background: Climate-based disease forecasting has been proposed as a potential tool in
climate change adaptation for the health sector. Here we explore the relevance of climate …

[HTML][HTML] The relationship between climate change, variability, and food security: understanding the impacts and building resilient food systems in west pokot county …

EB Obwocha, JJ Ramisch, L Duguma, L Orero - Sustainability, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
This study integrated local and scientific knowledge to assess the impacts of climate change
and variability on food security in West Pokot County, Kenya from 1980–2012. It …

[HTML][HTML] On Tanzania's precipitation climatology, variability, and future projection

K Borhara, B Pokharel, B Bean, L Deng, SYS Wang - Climate, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
We investigate historical and projected precipitation in Tanzania using observational and
climate model data. Precipitation in Tanzania is highly variable in both space and time due …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of CORDEX‐CORE regional climate models in simulating rainfall variability in Rwanda

B Safari, JN Sebaziga, A Siebert - International Journal of …, 2023‏ - researchgate.net
In this study, three regional climate models (RCMs), CCLM5-0-15, RegCM4-7 and
REMO2015, from CORDEX-CORE (AFR-22) are evaluated in their ability to reproduce …

[HTML][HTML] Education, financial aid, and awareness can reduce smallholder farmers' vulnerability to drought under climate change

MLK Wens, AF Van Loon… - Natural Hazards and …, 2022‏ - nhess.copernicus.org
Analyses of future agricultural drought impacts require a multidisciplinary approach in which
both human and environmental dynamics are studied. In this study, we used the socio …