Lateral terrestrial water flow contribution to summer precipitation at continental scale–A comparison between Europe and West Africa with WRF‐Hydro‐tag ensembles

J Arnault, B Fersch, T Rummler, Z Zhang… - Hydrological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
It is well accepted that summer precipitation can be altered by soil moisture condition.
Coupled land surface–atmospheric models have been routinely used to quantify soil …

Assessment of ERA5 and ERA-interim in reproducing mean and extreme climates over West Africa

IE Gbode, TE Babalola, GT Diro, JD Intsiful - Advances in Atmospheric …, 2023 - Springer
In situ data in West Africa are scarce, and reanalysis datasets could be an alternative source
to alleviate the problem of data availability. Nevertheless, because of uncertainties in …

[HTML][HTML] Characteristics of boundary layer height and its influencing factors in global monsoon regions

R Wang, Q Zhang, P Yue, Q Huang, J Zeng… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Monsoon precipitation changes has led to substantial changes in the spatial pattern of land
surface energy in most monsoon regions of the world, which subsequently affect the …

Current conditions and projected changes in crop water demand, irrigation requirement, and water availability over West Africa

IE Gbode, GT Diro, JD Intsiful, J Dudhia - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
Climate variability and change greatly affect agricultural and water resource management
over West Africa. This paper presents the current characteristics and projected change in …

Near-term efficient predictability of dry and wet years during West African monsoon season

UK Okoro, W Chen, VN Dike - Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2024 - Springer
The near-term performance efficiency in predicting the dry and wet years in the West African
monsoon (WAM) season (May to October) has been studied from 1979 to 2050 using the …

Impacts of global warming on West African monsoon rainfall: Downscaling by pseudo global warming method

IE Gbode, KO Ogunjobi, J Dudhia, VO Ajayi, C Liu - Atmospheric Research, 2021 - Elsevier
A set of numerical experiments was conducted in order to investigate the impacts of global
warming on West African monsoon rainfall for selected five years. The experiments varied …

[PDF][PDF] Impacts of global warming on West African monsoon rainfall

IE Gbode, VO Ajayi, KO Ogunjobi, J Dudhia… - African Handbook of …, 2021 - Springer
The impacts of global warming on rainfall in West Africa were examined using a numerical
framework for 5 monsoon years (2001, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011). Rainfall characteristics …