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 …

Sea surface temperature (SST) variability in the tropical Atlantic Ocean strongly impacts the
climate on the surrounding continents. On interannual time scales, highest SST variability …

Flash drought is characterized by a period of rapid drought intensification with impacts on
agriculture, water resources, ecosystems, and the human environment. Addressing these …

The common explanation for the progression of the rainy season over Africa is the seasonal
excursion of the ITCZ. The ITCZ paradigm stems from a time when tropical rainfall was …

An ensemble of regional climate simulations is analyzed to evaluate the ability of 10
regional climate models (RCMs) and their ensemble average to simulate precipitation over …

The arrival of the summer monsoon over West Africa has been documented by using daily
gridded rainfall data and NCEP–NCAR reanalyses during the period 1968–90, and OLR …

ABSTRACT We intercompare three gridded observed daily rainfall datasets over Africa
(FEWS (Famine Early Warning System), GPCP (Global Precipitation Climatology Project) …

The present assessment of the West African monsoon in the models of the Coupled Model
Intercomparison Project (CMIP) phase 5 (CMIP5) indicates little evolution since the third …

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 …

Abstract Analysis of the annually varying regional circulations and their relationship to
surface conditions and water vapour transport in the West African region is presented. The …