Modeling of Precipitation over Africa: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects

Publication Date

1-1-2025

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

DOI

10.1007/s00376-024-4187-6

Abstract

In recent years, there has been an increasing need for climate information across diverse sectors of society. This demand has arisen from the necessity to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate variability and change. Likewise, this period has seen a significant increase in our understanding of the physical processes and mechanisms that drive precipitation and its variability across different regions of Africa. By leveraging a large volume of climate model outputs, numerous studies have investigated the model representation of African precipitation as well as underlying physical processes. These studies have assessed whether the physical processes are well depicted and whether the models are fit for informing mitigation and adaptation strategies. This paper provides a review of the progress in precipitation simulation over Africa in state-of-the-science climate models and discusses the major issues and challenges that remain.

Keywords

climate modeling, CMIP6, convection-permitting models, CORDEX, monsoon, rainfall

Comments

A. A. Akinsanola, C. N. Wenhaji, R. Barimalala, P.-A. Monerie, R. D. Dixon, A. T. Tamoffo, M. O. Adeniyi, V. Ongoma, I. Diallo, M. Gudoshava, C. M. Wainwright, R. James, K. C. Silverio, A. Faye, S. S. Nangombe, M. W. Pokam, D. A. Vondou, N. C. G. Hart, I. Pinto, M. Kilavi, S. Hagos, E. N. Rajagopal, R. K. Kolli & S. Joseph

Department

Meteorology and Climate Science

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