Droughts and heatwaves in the West African monsoon system

This study fills that gap by comparing heatwave/heat stress and drought occurrence in three climate zones (Guinea, Sudan and Sahel) of West Africa from 1981 to ...

This study fills that gap by comparing heatwave/heat stress and drought occurrence in three climate zones (Guinea, Sudan and Sahel) of West Africa from 1981 to ...

Droughts and heatwaves in the West African monsoon system - CoLab

AbstractHeatwaves and droughts increasingly impact public health and societal system in a world subject to global warming.

Africa faces disproportionate burden from climate change and ...

“While many countries in the Horn of Africa, southern and North-West Africa continued to suffer exceptional multi-year drought, other countries ...

Droughts and heatwaves in the West African monsoon system - OUCI

Several studies reported these phenomena all around the world, but there is a dearth of research specifically in West Africa. This study fills that gap by ...

Climate change made west Africa's 'dangerous humid heatwave' 10 ...

The “dangerous humid heat” that engulfed western Africa in mid-February was made 10 times more likely by human-caused climate change, a new rapid attribution ...

West African Monsoon System's Responses to Global Ocean ...

1) and the transitional Sahel climate region (18°W–16°E, 10°–20°N; indicated by the black box in Fig. 1). The Guinea Coast experiences two rainfall maxima in ...

Drought-Heatwaves' Dynamics with Land Use Land Cover Types ...

The West African monsoon system is experiencing an increase in the intensity and duration of UTCI and Tmax heatwaves, mainly before or after the monsoon phase, ...

Impacts of global warming on West African monsoon rainfall

The summer regime of the West African Monsoon (WAM) prevails during the West African rainy season and provides over 75% of annual rainfall (Hagos and Cook, ...

African Monsoon | www.clivar.org

The West African Sahel is well known for the severe droughts that ravaged this region during the 1970s and 1980s. The vagaries of the rainfall in Sub-Saharan ...

Droughts and heatwaves in the West African monsoon system

Droughts and heatwaves in the West African monsoon system · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology · Université de Lomé · Karlsruhe Institute of ...

West African monsoon | Climate, Rainfall & Effects - Britannica

During July and August (the short drought), cloudy conditions prevail, but the air issues direct from anticyclones farther south and is dry, in spite of the ...

Changes in the Seasonal Cycle of Heatwaves, Dry and Wet Spells ...

In this study, the projected changes in the seasonal cycles of heatwave and wet and dry spell indices were investigated over West Africa under ...

West African Monsoon Dynamics and Its Control on the Stable ...

Strengthened conditions of the WAM in the MH and MP result from a pronounced meridional temperature gradient driving low-level westerly, Sahel- ...

The West African Monsoon system (WAM) - Misva - Aeris

The variability of annual rainfall totals associated with the WAM is very high both from one year to the next and from one region to the next as illustrated ...

Influences of Central and Eastern Atlantic Niño on the West African ...

The rainfall variabilities of the West African and South American summer monsoons, pivotal for local and global climate systems, ...

Rainfall trends in the African Sahel: Characteristics, processes, and ...

The dynamics of Sahel rainfall variability are inextricably connected with the dynamics of the West African Monsoon (WAM). Associated with ascent in the rain ...

West African Monsoon: current state and future projections in a high ...

The WAM is part of the global monsoon system, and the reversal of trade wind direction in the lower troposphere during WAM has been ...

Transport pathways across the West African Monsoon as revealed ...

The West African Monsoon (WAM) system is the main source of rainfall in the agriculturally based region of the Sahel. Understanding transport across the WAM ...

West African monsoon precipitation impacted by the South Eastern ...

The West African Monsoon (WAM) is a complex system depending on global climate influences and multiple regional environmental factors.