This review examines several aspects of the climate of eastern Africa. The climatic
commonality throughout the region is the frequent occurrence of drought severe enough to …

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 …

In 2011, drought in the Horn of Africa again made news headlines. This study aims to
quantify the meteorological component of this and other drought episodes in Ethiopia since …

Highlights•The Spatio-temporal trend was investigated based on seasonal and annual
rainfall data.•Temporal trends were identified using ITA and Mann-Kendall methods.•Rainfall …

This paper provides a review of atmospheric circulation and sea surface temperature (SST)
conditions that are associated with meteorological drought on the seasonal time scale in the …

This study evaluates the ability of 10 regional climate models (RCMs) from the Coordinated
Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) in simulating the characteristics of …

Temperature is one of the most frequently measured variables as it is a principal
thermodynamic property.[1] Many types of thermometers, which utilize various kinds of …

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

Rainfall seasonality and timing are key climatic features affecting crop yield in rainfed
agriculture (RFA). We evaluated the dynamics of temporal rainfall attributes–the strength of …

This study examines the projected changes in the characteristics of the El Niño Southern
Oscillation (ENSO) and Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) in terms of mean state, intensity and …