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Climate and extreme rainfall events in the Mono river basin (West Africa): investigating future changes with Regional Climate Models.
Constant HoundenouArona DiedhiouHenri Sourou Totin VodounonSalomon ObahoundjeGil MahéKouakou KouadioErnest AmoussouMichel BokoPierre CamberlinHervé Awoyesubject
lcsh:Hydraulic engineering010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesGeography Planning and Development0207 environmental engineeringDrainage basinENSEMBLE02 engineering and technologyAquatic Science01 natural sciencesBiochemistryWest africaEcosystem serviceslcsh:Water supply for domestic and industrial purposeslcsh:TC1-978Natural hazardPrecipitation[SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology020701 environmental engineering0105 earth and related environmental sciencesWater Science and Technologygeographylcsh:TD201-500geography.geographical_feature_categoryFlood mythextreme rainfall eventsMono basinregional climate models15. Life on land13. Climate action[SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/ClimatologyClimatologyAir temperatureEnvironmental scienceClimate modeldescription
This study characterizes the future changes in extreme rainfall and air temperature in the Mono river basin where the main economic activity is weather dependent and local populations are highly vulnerable to natural hazards, including flood inundations. Daily precipitation and temperature from observational datasets and Regional Climate Models (RCMs) output from REMO, RegCM, HadRM3, and RCA were used to analyze climatic variations in space and time, and fit a GEV model to investigate the extreme rainfalls and their return periods. The results indicate that the realism of the simulated climate in this domain is mainly controlled by the choice of the RCMs. These RCMs projected a 1 to 1.5 °
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2020-03-16 |