Sahel rainfall is dynamically linked to the global Hadley cell and to the regional monsoon
circulation. It is therefore susceptible to forcings from remote oceans and regional land alike …

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 …

An understanding of climate variability, trends, and prediction for better water resource
management and planning in a basin is very important. Since the water resources of the …

Ongoing global warming raises the hypothesis of an intensification of the hydrological cycle,
extreme rainfall events becoming more frequent. However, the strong time–space variability …

One motivation for setting up the CATCH (Couplage de l'Atmosphère Tropicale et du Cycle
Hydrologique) project at the end of the 1990s, was to contribute to documenting the …

An anticipated consequence of ongoing global warming is the intensification of the rainfall
regimes meaning longer dry spells and heavier precipitation when it rains, with potentially …

Using daily (monthly) rainfall data from 167 (254) stations across West Africa with at least
80% data availability for the 31-year period 1980–2010 and the gridded African Rainfall …

The management of water resources in our states has become increasingly difficult in recent
times due to the frequency and intensity of droughts. In the context of climate change …

Global warming and climate variability are emerging as the foremost environmental
problems in the 21st century, especially in developing countries. Full knowledge of key …

Abundant information is available on West African drought and its hydrological and
environmental impacts. Land-use and climatic changes have greatly modified the conditions …