Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

PI Palmer, CM Wainwright, B Dong… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Eastern Africa exhibits bimodal rainfall consisting of long rains (March–May) and short rains
(October–December), changes in which have profound socioeconomic and environmental …

Satellite remote sensing of precipitation and the terrestrial water cycle in a changing climate

V Levizzani, E Cattani - Remote sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
The water cycle is the most essential supporting physical mechanism ensuring the existence
of life on Earth. Its components encompass the atmosphere, land, and oceans. The cycle is …

Did ERA5 improve temperature and precipitation reanalysis over East Africa?

S Gleixner, T Demissie, GT Diro - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
Reanalysis products are often taken as an alternative solution to observational weather and
climate data due to availability and accessibility problems, particularly in data-sparse …

Validation of the CHIRPS satellite rainfall estimates over eastern Africa

T Dinku, C Funk, P Peterson… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Long and temporally consistent rainfall time series are essential in climate analyses and
applications. Rainfall data from station observations are inadequate over many parts of the …

[HTML][HTML] A comparison of global agricultural monitoring systems and current gaps

S Fritz, L See, JCL Bayas, F Waldner, D Jacques… - Agricultural systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Global and regional scale agricultural monitoring systems aim to provide up-to-date
information regarding food production to different actors and decision makers in support of …

Later wet seasons with more intense rainfall over Africa under future climate change

CM Dunning, E Black, RP Allan - Journal of Climate, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Changes in the seasonality of precipitation over Africa have high potential for
detrimental socioeconomic impacts due to high societal dependence upon seasonal rainfall …

Evaluation of 23 gridded precipitation datasets across West Africa

F Satgé, D Defrance, B Sultan, MP Bonnet, F Seyler… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study aims reporting on 23 gridded precipitation datasets (P-datasets) reliability across
West Africa through direct comparisons with rain gauges measurement at the daily and …

Long-term spatial-temporal trends and variability of rainfall over Eastern and Southern Africa

FK Muthoni, VO Odongo, J Ochieng… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2019 - Springer
This study investigates the spatial-temporal trends and variability of rainfall within East and
South Africa (ESA) region. The newly available Climate Hazards group Infrared Precipitation …

Validation of new satellite rainfall products over the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

GT Ayehu, T Tadesse, B Gessesse… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - amt.copernicus.org
Accurate measurement of rainfall is vital to analyze the spatial and temporal patterns of
precipitation at various scales. However, the conventional rain gauge observations in many …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of multiple climate data sources for managing environmental resources in East Africa

SH Gebrechorkos, S Hülsmann… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2018 - hess.copernicus.org
Managing environmental resources under conditions of climate change and extreme climate
events remains among the most challenging research tasks in the field of sustainable …