• Effects on early monsoon rainfall in West Africa due to recent deforestation in a convection-permitting ensemble 

      Crook, Julia; Klein, Cornelia; Folwell, Sonja; Taylor, Christopher M.; Parker, Douglas John; Bamba, Adama; Kouadio, Kouakou (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Tropical deforestation can have a significant effect on climate, but research attention has been directed mostly towards Amazonian deforestation. The southern part of West Africa (a region dependent on rain-fed agriculture ...
    • Nowcasting tracks of severe convective storms in West Africa from observations of land surface state 

      Taylor, Christopher M; Klein, Cornelia; Dione, Cheikh; Parker, Douglas John; Marsham, John; Abdoulahat Diop, Cheikh; Fletcher, Jennifer; Saidou Chaibou, Abdoul Aziz; Nafissa, Dignon Bertin; Semeena, Valiyaveetil Shamsudheen; Cole, Steven J; Anderson, Seonaid R (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In tropical convective climates, where numerical weather prediction of rainfall has high uncertainty, nowcasting provides essential alerts of extreme events several hours ahead. In principle, short-term prediction of intense ...