Agriculture in West Africa in the twenty-first century: climate change and impacts scenarios, and potential for adaptation

B Sultan, M Gaetani - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Climate change over West Africa: Recent trends and future projections

MB Sylla, PM Nikiema, P Gibba, I Kebe… - Adaptation to climate …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The West African climate has evolved in recent decades to respond to elevated
anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) forcing. An assessment of its recent trends and future …

Climate change impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa: from physical changes to their social repercussions

O Serdeczny, S Adams, F Baarsch, D Coumou… - Regional Environmental …, 2017 - Springer
The repercussions of climate change will be felt in various ways throughout both natural and
human systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate change projections for this region point to a …

Projected future daily characteristics of African precipitation based on global (CMIP5, CMIP6) and regional (CORDEX, CORDEX-CORE) climate models

A Dosio, MW Jury, M Almazroui, M Ashfaq, I Diallo… - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
We provide an assessment of future daily characteristics of African precipitation by explicitly
comparing the results of large ensembles of global (CMIP5, CMIP6) and regional (CORDEX …

What can we know about future precipitation in Africa? Robustness, significance and added value of projections from a large ensemble of regional climate models

A Dosio, RG Jones, C Jack, C Lennard, G Nikulin… - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
We employ a large ensemble of Regional Climate Models (RCMs) from the COordinated
Regional-climate Downscaling EXperiment to explore two questions:(1) what can we know …

Assessing future changes of climate extreme events in the CORDEX-MENA region using regional climate model ALADIN-climate

F Driouech, K ElRhaz, W Moufouma-Okia… - Earth Systems and …, 2020 - Springer
This study investigates future changes of temperature, precipitation, and associated extreme
events in the MENA region using Regional Climate Model ALADIN-Climate over the …

Dynamical downscaling of CMIP5 global circulation models over CORDEX-Africa with COSMO-CLM: evaluation over the present climate and analysis of the added …

A Dosio, HJ Panitz, M Schubert-Frisius, D Lüthi - Climate Dynamics, 2015 - Springer
In this work we present the results of the application of the consortium for small-scale
modeling (COSMO) regional climate model (COSMO-CLM, hereafter, CCLM) over Africa in …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change projections for the Middle East–North Africa domain with COSMO-CLM at different spatial resolutions

E Bucchignani, P Mercogliano, HJ Panitz… - Advances in Climate …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, projected changes in the future climate conditions for the Middle East–North
Africa domain over the 21st century have been investigated. Two simulations with the …

Projection of temperature and heat waves for Africa with an ensemble of CORDEX Regional Climate Models

A Dosio - Climate Dynamics, 2017 - Springer
The most severe effects of global warning will be related to the frequency and severity of
extreme events. We provide an analysis of projections of temperature and related extreme …

Projected climate over the Greater Horn of Africa under 1.5 C and 2 C global warming

S Osima, VS Indasi, M Zaroug, HS Endris… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze the potential effect of global warming levels (GWLs) of 1.5 C and 2 C above pre-
industrial levels (1861− 1890) on mean temperature and precipitation as well as intra …