The study evaluates the ability of seven regional climate models (RCMs) driven by ERA-Interim reanalysis, in skillfully reproducing key features of precipitation (1990-2008) over West Africa within the Coordinated Regional ...

This research provides the thresholds for thunderstorm indices and non-occurrence of thunderstorm for Kano as well as thunderstorm frequency. Daily Upper air and thunderstorm data for 2011 to 2013 were obtained from ...

This study uses the Regional Climate Model version 3 (RegCM3), a high resolution model to study the response of rainfall to changing land use/land-cover (LULC) over West Africa. A real and four hypothetical land ...

This study aims at carrying out comparative analysis of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) from various satellite platforms and ground observations from Aerosol Network (Aeronet) over West African Countries between January 2005 ...

The interaction between the atmosphere - ocean results in the exchange of heat, momentum and water vapour, through latent heat flux, sensible heat flux, and radiation. Atmospheric humidity is a key variable in determining ...