Southern West Africa (SWA) is characterised by a wide range of rainfall types, the relative
importance of which have never been quantified on a regional level. Here, we use 16 years …

A Process-Based Validation of GPM IMERG and Its Sources Using a Mesoscale Rain Gauge
Network in the West African Forest Zone in: Journal of Hydrometeorology Volume 21 Issue 4 …

Precipitation forecasts are of large societal value in the tropics. Here, we compare 1–5-day
ensemble predictions from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts …

Deforestation affects local and regional hydroclimate through changes in heating and
moistening of the atmosphere. In the tropics, deforestation leads to warming, but its impact …

East Africa is particularly vulnerable to weather extremes, with severe weather linked to
thousands of deaths per year. Improved forecasts of convective events in this region are …

Reliable and accurate weather forecasts, particularly those of rainfall and its extremes, have
the potential to improve living conditions in densely populated southern West Africa (SWA) …

Rainfall monitoring over Africa using satellite imagery is essential given the lack of land-
based rainfall measurements and the dependency of economies largely based on climate …

A warm-rain episode over southern West Africa is analyzed using unprecedented X-band
radar observations from Savè, Benin and a Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) over a 240× 240 …

Using a two-year dataset (2016–17) from 17 one-minute rain gauges located in the moist
forest region of Ghana, the performance of Integrated Multisatellite Retrievals for GPM …