Climate Change and Rainfall Extremes in Africa: Occurrence, Impacts and Adaptation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0443288674 ISBN 13: 9780443288678

Publisher: Elsevier, 2025

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

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. He has research interests in climate change, climate services, and sustainable development, over Africa. He researches on application of climate information in closing crop yield gap, and conservation of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Sites in Morocco.

From the Back Cover

Climate Change and Rainfall Extremes in Africa provides the latest developments on extreme rainfall in Africa along with an analysis of current impacts, future implications, and community adaptations. The 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. The first part closely examines rainfall variability in Africa (and across the world) while considering how climate change has contributed to the increasing severity of events. The second part focuses on different regions throughout Africa and various meteorological extremes, such as tropical cyclones, drought, flooding, rising water levels, and changes in rainfall concentration. The final part looks ahead at 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443288674
• ISBN 13: 9780443288678
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 388
• Editor: Ongoma