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 …

A tale of two futures: contrasting scenarios of future precipitation for West Africa from an ensemble of regional climate models

A Dosio, AG Turner, AT Tamoffo, MB Sylla… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The results of a large ensemble of regional climate models lead to two contrasting but
plausible scenarios for the precipitation change over West Africa, one where mean …

Projections of indices of daily temperature and precipitation based on bias-adjusted CORDEX-Africa regional climate model simulations

A Dosio, C Lennard, J Spinoni - Climatic Change, 2022 - Springer
We present a dataset of daily, bias-adjusted temperature and precipitation projections for
continental Africa based on a large ensemble of regional climate model simulations, which …

Performance evaluation of multiple regional climate models to simulate rainfall in the Central Rift Valley lakes basin of Ethiopia and their selection criteria for the best …

SK Balcha, TA Hulluka, AA Awass… - Environmental Monitoring …, 2023 - Springer
The historical datasets of five regional climate models (RCMs) available in the Coordinated
Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX)–Africa database are evaluated against …

Downscaling projections of climate change in Sao Tome and Principe Islands, Africa

SC Chou, A de Arruda Lyra, JL Gomes, DA Rodriguez… - Climate Dynamics, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Sao Tome and Principe is a small insular African country extremely vulnerable to
rising sea levels and impacts such as inundation, shore line change, and salt water intrusion …

[PDF][PDF] Understanding the cascade of GCM and downscaling uncertainties in hydro‐climatic projections over India

T Sharma, H Vittal, S Chhabra, K Salvi… - International Journal …, 2018 - drive.google.com
India is a major agrarian country strongly impacted by spatio-temporal variations in the
Indian monsoon. The impact assessment is usually accomplished by implementing …

Projected changes in extreme precipitation intensity and dry spell length in Côte d'Ivoire under future climates

ALM Yapo, A Diawara, BK Kouassi, F Yoroba… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2020 - Springer
This study analyzes projected changes in seasonal extreme precipitation intensity and dry
spell length in the investigation area (Côte d'Ivoire) under RCP4. 5 and RCP8. 5 forcing …

Changes in compound extremes of rainfall and temperature over West Africa using CMIP5 simulations

I Diba, A Diedhiou, AM Famien… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This study aims to characterize changes in compound extremes of rainfall and temperature
over West Africa. For this purpose, data from CHIRPS observations, the ERA5 reanalysis …

Changes in the Seasonal Cycle of Heatwaves, Dry and Wet Spells over West Africa Using CORDEX Simulations

ALM Yapo, BK Kouassi, A Diawara, F Yoroba… - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study analyzes the potential response of the seasonal cycle of heatwaves (HWDI) and
dry (CDD) and wet (CWD) spell indices over West Africa for the near-(2031–2060) and the …

Assessment of future water resources availability under climate change scenarios in the mékrou basin, Benin

EA Alamou, E Obada, A Afouda - Hydrology, 2017 - mdpi.com
This work aims to evaluate future water availability in the Mékrou catchment under climate
change scenarios. To reach this goal, data from Regional Climate Models (RCMs) were …