This article presents a review of the scientific literature on detection, sources of variability,
and predictability of the timing of monsoons. The timing of monsoons is characterized by the …

This paper examines the onset and cessation dates of the rainy season over Ghana using
rain gauge data from the Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet) over the period of 1970 …

Climate change trends and projections based on observation and climate models were
reviewed in West Africa (WA). Historically, the region has experienced decades of severe …

Climate variability and change affect most socioeconomic sectors in West Africa. It is now
admitted that the variability of climate has increased since the 1950s mainly because of the …

Seasonality of African Precipitation from 1996 to 2009 in: Journal of Climate Volume 25
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Summary¶ Thirty years (1958–1987) of daily rainfall data for Kenya and north eastern
Tanzania are analysed with the aim to characterize the interannual variability of the onset …

Particularly in regions, where precipitation is limited to a few months per year only, reliable
determination of the onset of the rainy season and the start of the sowing time is of crucial …

The inter-annual and spatial variability of different rainfall variables is analysed over
Equatorial East Africa (Kenya and northeastern Tanzania). At the station level, three …

An intercomparison of seven gridded rainfall products incorporating satellite data (ARC,
CHIRPS, CMORPH, PERSIANN, TAPEER, TARCAT, TMPA) is carried out over Central …

Since 2015, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has experienced an unprecedented rise in acute
food insecurity (AFI), and current projections for the year 2020 indicate that more than 100 …