Renewable sources of electricity, such as solar and wind, need to be paired with sources of
reliable baseload. Hydropower is a renewable, low‐emission source of electricity baseload …

This article provides a comprehensive review of the global monsoon that encompasses
findings from studies of both modern monsoons and paleomonsoons. We introduce a …

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 …

This paper explores the extent of consumption smoothing between 1981 and 1985 in rural
Burkina Faso. In particular, we examine the extent to which livestock, grain storage and inter …

Ongoing global warming raises the hypothesis of an intensification of the hydrological cycle,
extreme rainfall events becoming more frequent. However, the strong time–space variability …

One motivation for setting up the CATCH (Couplage de l'Atmosphère Tropicale et du Cycle
Hydrologique) project at the end of the 1990s, was to contribute to documenting the …

The arrival of the summer monsoon over West Africa has been documented by using daily
gridded rainfall data and NCEP–NCAR reanalyses during the period 1968–90, and OLR …

African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) is an international project to improve our
knowledge and understanding of the West African monsoon (WAM) and its variability with an …

Using daily (monthly) rainfall data from 167 (254) stations across West Africa with at least
80% data availability for the 31-year period 1980–2010 and the gridded African Rainfall …

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