Climate Change and Rainfall Extremes in Africa
Occurrence, Impacts and Adaptation
- 1st Edition - April 21, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Victor Ongoma
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 8 8 6 7 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 8 8 6 8 - 5
Climate Change and Rainfall Extremes in Africa: Occurrence, Impacts and Adaptation provides the latest developments on extreme rainfall in Africa, along with an analysis of curren… Read more
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Request a sales quoteClimate Change and Rainfall Extremes in Africa: Occurrence, Impacts and Adaptation provides the latest developments on extreme rainfall in Africa, along with an analysis of current impacts, future implications, and community adaptations. The book's chapters are organized into three parts: 1) Understanding Rainfall Extremes, 2) Regional Rainfall and Hydrological Extremes, and 3) Prediction, Impacts, and Adaptation to Rainfall Extremes. Specific sections examine rainfall variability in Africa (and across the world), how climate change has contributed to the increasing severity of events, focus on different regions and various meteorological extremes, including tropical cyclones, drought, flooding, rising water levels, and changes in rainfall concentration.
Final sections look ahead to the future of forecasting rainfall, economic implications, damage assessment, adaptation, community resilience, and risk reduction measures. This timely resource will deepen readers' understanding of how climate change and extreme rainfall in Africa (and elsewhere) are impacting communities and what can be done to mitigate the effects.
Final sections look ahead to the future of forecasting rainfall, economic implications, damage assessment, adaptation, community resilience, and risk reduction measures. This timely resource will deepen readers' understanding of how climate change and extreme rainfall in Africa (and elsewhere) are impacting communities and what can be done to mitigate the effects.
- Provides a conceptual framework that gives readers an interdisciplinary understanding of climate change and rainfall extremes in Africa
- Includes case studies that offer practical examples and real-world data
- Presents end-of-chapter summaries that highlight findings and future implications
Meteorology, Environmental Science, and Geography post-graduate students, researchers, and academics with interest in climate, environment, and related disciplines.
- Title of Book
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- About the editor
- Preface
- Part I: Understanding rainfall extremes
- Chapter 1 Rainfall variability across Africa
- Abstract
- 1.1 Background
- 1.2 Rainfall climatology
- 1.3 Rainfall drivers
- 1.4 Historical and future rainfall variability
- 1.5 Summary
- References
- Chapter 2 Compound heat wave-drought hazards and impacts on socioeconomic productivity and carbon cycle
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Data and materials
- 2.3 Methods
- 2.4 Results
- 2.5 Discussion
- 2.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 3 Climate data for understanding rainfall extremes in developing countries
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Data quality
- 3.3 Transmission of climate data to Global Telecommunication System
- 3.4 Intercomparison of rainfall extremes patterns
- 3.5 Bottlenecks in climate data
- 3.6 Initiatives to bridge the gaps in climate data and services
- 3.7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4 The role of artificial intelligence in understanding rainfall extremes in Africa
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Literature review
- 4.3 Types of climate extremes in Africa
- 4.4 Methodological framework for artificial intelligence-driven rainfall control
- 4.5 Decision tree
- 4.6 Machine learning algorithms for extreme rainfall prediction
- 4.7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 5 Applications of artificial intelligence for forecasting and managing extremes
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Background
- 5.3 Artificial intelligence: an overview
- 5.4 Artificial intelligence for extremes events
- 5.5 Challenges in the artificial intelligence approach for extreme events
- 5.6 Conclusion
- References
- Part II: Regional rainfall and hydrological extremes
- Chapter 6 Tropical cyclones over the Southwest Indian Ocean
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Material and methods
- 6.3 Results
- 6.4 Conclusion
- Conflict of interest
- References
- Chapter 7 Changes in climate extremes in Southern Africa
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Datasets and methodology
- 7.3 Results and discussion
- 7.4 Summary and conclusion
- References
- Chapter 8 Drought variability over southern Africa
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Observation and monitoring of drought
- 8.3 Drought mechanisms in southern Africa
- 8.4 Impacts of drought in southern Africa
- 8.5 Characteristics of droughts in southern Africa
- 8.6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 9 Persistent droughts in Northern Africa
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Background
- 9.3 Drought impacts in North Africa
- 9.4 Precipitation drivers in North Africa
- 9.5 The complex dynamics of drought persistence
- 9.6 Management of droughts
- 9.7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 10 Flooding in West Africa: causes, impacts, mitigation, and adaptation strategies
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Hydrological factors influencing flood disaster in West Africa
- 10.3 Future rainfall and projected flood hazards
- 10.4 Flood risk and flood management
- 10.5 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 11 Impacts of climate change on climatic extremes and hydrological regime of the Congo River Basin
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Materials and methods
- 11.3 Results
- 11.4 Discussion
- 11.5 Conclusions
- AI disclosure
- References
- Part III: Prediction, impacts and adaptation to rainfall extremes
- Chapter 12 Forecasting and monitoring of extreme rainfall over Africa
- Abstract
- 12.1 Background
- 12.2 Forecasting timescales
- 12.3 Major extreme events in the continent
- 12.4 Large scale drivers of extreme rainfall and their predictability in climate models
- 12.5 Existing methods of forecasting extreme rainfall
- 12.6 Monitoring extreme events
- 12.7 Case studies of extreme events
- 12.8 Opportunities and future directions
- 12.9 Conclusions
- AI disclosure
- References
- Chapter 13 Assessment of loss and damage of extreme rainfall events
- Abstract
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Background to extreme rainfall-related loss and damage
- 13.3 Methodology
- 13.4 Results and discussion
- 13.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 14 Impacts of climate extremes on agriculture in Southern Africa
- Abstract
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Climate, crop production systems, and vulnerability in Southern Africa
- 14.3 Trends in climate extremes in Southern Africa
- 14.4 Impact of climate extremes on crop production in Southern Africa
- 14.5 Adaptation to climate extremes for crop production systems
- 14.6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 15 Mainstreaming extreme rainfall adaptation into planning and support for vulnerable communities
- Abstract
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Importance of mainstream adaptation
- 15.3 Tools for supporting the mainstreaming process
- 15.4 Mainstreaming implementation gap
- 15.5 A case study of local government planning
- 15.6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 16 Regional cooperation for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
- Abstract
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Methodology
- 16.3 Results and discussion
- 16.4 Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 21, 2025
- No. of pages (eBook): 420
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443288678
- eBook ISBN: 9780443288685
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Victor Ongoma
Victor Ongoma is a meteorologist with specialty in climatology and climate change. He is currently assistant professor of Climate Change Adaptation at the International Water Research Institute (IWRI), Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco. He holds a PhD in Meteorology from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China. Prior to joining IWRI he was a lecturer of Physical Geography at University of the South Pacific, Fiji (2019 – 2021), a lecturer in Meteorology at South Eastern Kenya University, Kenya (2013 - 2019), and in 2018, a Visiting Fellow at the Center for African Studies (CAS), Harvard University, USA. His current research focuses on climate change, and generation and application of climate products in decision making for sustainable development over Africa.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor of Climate Change Adaptation, International Water Research Institute (IWRI), Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, MoroccoRead Climate Change and Rainfall Extremes in Africa on ScienceDirect