Earth observation for drought risk financing in pastoral systems of sub-Saharan Africa

F Fava, A Vrieling - Current opinion in environmental sustainability, 2021 - Elsevier
As climate-related crises increase globally, climate risk financing is becoming an integral
part of financial protection and resilience building strategies of African countries. Drought …

Widespread increase of boreal summer dry season length over the Congo rainforest

Y Jiang, L Zhou, CJ Tucker, A Raghavendra… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Dry season length strongly influences tropical rainforest vegetation and is largely
determined by precipitation patterns,. Over the Amazon, the dry season length has …

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 …

Projected changes in extreme rainfall and temperature events and possible implications for Cameroon's socio‐economic sectors

AT Tamoffo, T Weber, AA Akinsanola… - Meteorological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme events like flooding, droughts and heatwave are among the factors causing huge
socio‐economic losses to Cameroonians. Investigating the potential response of rainfall and …

[HTML][HTML] Accuracy of satellite and reanalysis rainfall estimates over Africa: a multi-scale assessment of eight products for continental applications

K Mekonnen, NM Velpuri, M Leh, K Akpoti… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Study Region Continental Africa Study Focus This study evaluates the accuracy of
eight gauge-corrected rainfall products across Africa through direct comparisons with in situ …

Assessing reanalysis data for understanding rainfall climatology and variability over Central Equatorial Africa

W Hua, L Zhou, SE Nicholson, H Chen, M Qin - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
Understanding the rainfall climatology and variability over Central Equatorial Africa (CEA)
has largely been hampered by the lack of adequate in situ observations and meteorological …

Evaluating the performance of multiple satellite-based precipitation products in the Congo River Basin using the SWAT model

V Dos Santos, RAJ Oliveira, P Datok, S Sauvage… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Study region Congo River Basin Study Focus Precipitation is the major driving force
of hydrological processes and is one of the main input datasets for hydrological models. The …

Assessing the performance of WRF Model in simulating heavy precipitation events over East Africa using satellite-based precipitation product

IK Nooni, G Tan, Y Hongming, AA Saidou Chaibou… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study investigated the capability of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)
model to simulate seven different heavy precipitation (PRE) events that occurred across East …

Contrasting controls on Congo Basin evaporation at the two rainfall peaks

D Crowhurst, S Dadson, J Peng, R Washington - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
Evaporation is a crucial driver of Congo Basin climate, but the dynamics controlling the
seasonality of basin evaporation are not well understood. This study aims to discover why …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of global reanalysis precipitation for hydrological modelling in data-scarce regions: A case study of Kenya

MA Wanzala, A Ficchi, HL Cloke, EM Stephens… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Study region 19 flood prone catchments in Kenya, Eastern Africa Study focus Flooding is a
major natural hazard especially in developing countries, and the need for timely, reliable …