This study assesses the effect of Urban Heat Island (UHI) on Diurnal Temperature Range (DTR) in Akure, Ondo State. Air temperature data measured simultaneously at 17 different sites within the Akure metropolis in the ...

Human bioclimatic studies have relevance in various aspects of the human life and the basic functions of the human metabolism are affected by several environmental factors of which climate is a major one. This study seeks ...

This research work is aimed at estimating solar radiation using surface temperature and sunshine duration for Gusau, Abuja and Ikeja. The global solar radiation on horizontal surface at the location of interest is the ...

The main objective of this work was to determine the potential of solar power in Nigeria, by estimating solar radiations on both horizontal and tilted surfaces using the diffuse component of the global solar radiation ...

This research work focused on the thorny problem of the representation of rainfall over West Africa and particularly in the Gulf of Guinea and its surroundings by Regional Climate Models (RCMs). The first part of the ...

Recent observations of street level carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations in Akure city centre show a high correlation with traffic density most of the time, however the reasons for low correlation for other periods have ...

Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city has witnessed remarkable expansion, growth and developmental activities such as building, road construction, deforestation and many other anthropogenic activities since its inception in 1976. ...

Weather parameters play a role in the occurrence of diseases outbreak all over the world. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between weather elements (temperature, rainfall and relative humidity). Ten ...

Daily, monthly and annual average monitoring data for PM10, meteorological parameters and horizontal visibility at Area 11 Garki, Abuja from April 2013 to March 2015 were analyzed using statistical methods to investigate ...

This research examined the performance of four different cumulus parameterization schemes (CPS) in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model for simulating three heavy rainfall events. The first over Ouagadougou ...