The highly variable rainfall and recurring drought in dry sub-humid and semi-arid regions
constitute a major socio-economic problem that influences people's livelihoods. Agricultural …

The character of the sub-regional eco-climatic zones has possibly changed as suggested in
the dwindling fortune of agricultural productivity, documented changes in vegetation and …

The farmers' perceptions of climate change (CC) and variability in Okpuje were assessed
and compared with historical climate data. They perceive an occurrence of change that …

It was speculated that the droughts of the 1970s and 1980s that ravaged the Sahelian region
of West Africa had ended following the occurrence of floods of different magnitudes in the …

The need to understand changes in rainfall characteristics associated with climate variability
and change in tropical Africa has become very important since the livelihoods of a majority …

The paper assessed the onset and end dates of the rainy season in Owerri Imo State,
Nigeria using daily rainfall data from 1987 to 2016. The study employed the Hybrid method …

It has been widely accepted that the global climate will change, with a 'dry gets drier, wet
gets wetter'pattern. Recent studies found that such changes were overestimated …

The need for an effective method of prediction of the onset and cessation dates of the rainy
season cannot be overstressed. It becomes more imperative considering that the mainstay …

This study characterised the spatio-temporal patterns of effective rainfall onset dates, their
variability and their relationship with ENSO/IOD over Savanna zones of Nigeria. Daily …

This study was aimed at assessing monsoonal rainfall real onset dates (RODs), real
cessation dates (RCDs) and extent of association between cumulative rainfall (CR) and …