West Africa is known to be particularly vulnerable to climate change due to high climate
variability, high reliance on rain-fed agriculture, and limited economic and institutional …

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 …

Abstract Changes in the seasonality of precipitation over Africa have high potential for
detrimental socioeconomic impacts due to high societal dependence upon seasonal rainfall …

Variation in the seasonal cycle of African rainfall is of key importance for agriculture. Here an
objective method of determining the timing of onset and cessation is, for the first time …

Abstract Analysis of the annually varying regional circulations and their relationship to
surface conditions and water vapour transport in the West African region is presented. The …

What Drives the Intensification of Mesoscale Convective Systems over the West African
Sahel under Climate Change? in: Journal of Climate Volume 33 Issue 8 (2020) Jump to …

An objective method for the identification of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) in
gridded numerical weather prediction datasets is presented. This technique uses layer-and …

Although shallow groundwater (< 50 mbgl) sustains the vast majority of improved drinking-
water supplies in rural Africa, there is little information on how resilient this resource may be …

In June and July 2016 the Dynamics–Aerosol–Chemistry–Cloud Interactions in West Africa
(DACCIWA) project organised a major international field campaign in southern West Africa …

The first episodes of floods caused by heavy rainfall during the major rainy season in 2018
occurred in Accra (5.6° N and 0.17° W), a coastal town, and Kumasi (6.72° N and 1.6° W) in …