• 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 ...
    • Tropical Africa's First Testbed for High-Impact Weather Forecasting and Nowcasting 

      Parker, Douglas John; Fletcher, Joyce; Diop, Cheikh Anta; Adefisan, Elijah Adesanya; Ahiataku, Maureen; Ansah, Samuel Owusu; Birch, Cathryn E.; Burns, Helen L.; Clarke, S.J.; Gacheru, James; James, Tony D.; Tuikong, C.K. Ngetich; Koros, D.; Indasi, V.S.; Lamptey, B.L.; Lawal, Kamoru Abiodun; Roberts, Alexander; Stein, Thorwald; Visman, Emma; Woodhams, Barry J.; Youds, Lorraine H.; Ajayi, V.O.; Bosire, E.N.; Cafaro, Carlo; Camara, Cheick Amadou Tidiani; Chanzu, Benard; Dione, Cheikh; Gitau, Wilfred; Groves, Denise; Groves, James; Hill, Peter G.; Ishiyaku, Ibrahim; Klein, Cornelia; Marsham, John H.; Mutai, Bethwel Kipkoech; Ndiaye, Papa Ngor; Osei, M.; Popoola, Temidayo Israel; Talib, Joshua; Taylor, Christopher M; Walker, Dan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Testbeds have become integral to advancing the transfer of knowledge and capabilities from research to operational weather forecasting in many parts of the world. The first high-impact weather testbed in tropical Africa ...