Climate Change and Rainfall Extremes in Africa

Occurrence, Impacts and Adaptation

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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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 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.

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

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-06-13
Mått216 x 276 x 19 mm
Vikt1 090 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor388
FörlagElsevier Science
ISBN9780443288678

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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.

Part 1: Understanding rainfall extremes1. Rainfall variability across Africa/world2. Understanding Extreme rainfall in Africa3. Advancement of climate change and extremes attribution4. Compound extremes5. Climate data for understanding rainfall extremes in developing countries6. The role of artificial intelligence in understanding extremesPart 2: Regional rainfall and hydrological extremes7. Tropical cyclones over South Eastern Africa8. Drought variability over Southern Africa9. Persistent droughts in Northern Africa10. Flooding in West Africa11. Unprecedented rising water levels in the East Africa; Lake Victoria Basin12. Changes in rainfall concentration over Congo BasinPart 3: Prediction, impacts and adaptation to rainfall extremes13. Forecasting and monitoring of Extreme Rainfall over Africa14. Review of economic implications of rainfall extreme events15. Assessment of Loss and Damage of Extreme Rainfall Events16. Perception and adaptation to climate extremes in Africa17. Mainstreaming rainfall extreme adaptation and adaptation into planning and support for communities resilience around extreme rainfall events18. Reducing vulnerability to extreme rainfall regional cooperation on integration of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

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