Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

PI Palmer, CM Wainwright, B Dong… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Eastern Africa exhibits bimodal rainfall consisting of long rains (March–May) and short rains
(October–December), changes in which have profound socioeconomic and environmental …

Crop breeding for a changing climate: Integrating phenomics and genomics with bioinformatics

JI Marsh, H Hu, M Gill, J Batley, D Edwards - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Key message Safeguarding crop yields in a changing climate requires bioinformatics
advances in harnessing data from vast phenomics and genomics datasets to translate …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

Projected change in temperature and precipitation over Africa from CMIP6

M Almazroui, F Saeed, S Saeed, M Nazrul Islam… - Earth Systems and …, 2020 - Springer
We analyze data of 27 global climate models from the sixth phase of the Coupled Model
Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), and examine projected changes in temperature and …

Comparison of CMIP6 and CMIP5 models in simulating mean and extreme precipitation over East Africa

B Ayugi, J Zhihong, H Zhu, H Ngoma… - International Journal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the improvement in Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase Six
(CMIP6) models against the predecessor CMIP5 in simulating mean and extreme …

Evaluation of meteorological drought and flood scenarios over Kenya, East Africa

B Ayugi, G Tan, R Niu, Z Dong, M Ojara, L Mumo… - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
This work examines drought and flood events over Kenya from 1981 to 2016 using the
Standardized Precipitation–Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI). The spatiotemporal analysis of …

Evaluation of precipitation simulations in CMIP6 models over Uganda

H Ngoma, W Wen, B Ayugi, H Babaousmail, R Karim… - 2021 - nru.uncst.go.ug
This study employed 15 CMIP6 GCMs and evaluated their ability to simulate rainfall over
Uganda during 1981–2014. The models and the ensemble mean were assessed based on …

Assessment of CMIP6 multi-model projections worldwide: which regions are getting warmer and are going through a drought in Africa and Morocco? What changes …

AA Bouramdane - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Although climate change is an inherently global issue, its impacts will not be felt equally
across Earth's pressure belts and continental-scale regions. This study seeks to examine …

Future changes in precipitation extremes over East Africa based on CMIP6 models

B Ayugi, V Dike, H Ngoma, H Babaousmail, R Mumo… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper presents an analysis of projected precipitation extremes over the East African
region. The study employs six indices defined by the Expert Team on Climate Change …

Assessing current and future spatiotemporal precipitation variability and trends over Uganda, East Africa, based on CHIRPS and regional climate model datasets

H Ngoma, W Wen, M Ojara, B Ayugi - Meteorology and Atmospheric …, 2021 - Springer
The lack of reliable rainfall projection records remains a major challenge to Uganda. In the
advent of extreme wetness or drought events, reliable rainfall estimates for local planning …