The African continent hosts a wide variety of climates, ranging from tropical rainforests to arid deserts, and its complex seasonal rainfall patterns are shaped by monsoons and regional features. Climate variability has a profound impact on water availability, agriculture, and livelihoods across the continent. As climate changes, improving our understanding of rainfall patterns and their drivers becomes essential for building resilience and adapting to climate change.
However, significant biases persist in climate models regarding the representation of monsoon systems, and projections of their future evolution remain uncertain. Improving our understanding of the mechanisms driving monsoon circulations, land–atmosphere interactions, and convection processes is therefore essential to enhance the simulation of monsoon systems and climate across Africa.
This session welcomes contributions on all aspects of African climate, on Past climate over African, S2S to decadal prediction, centennial changes, and work emphasising physical processes and numerical modelling. We also welcome studies on climate-related applications using Natural Language Processing and other ML/AI techniques. We invite presentations on operational applications and observational networks. Papers which connect African climate change and variability to human health, food and water security, and socio-economic development are welcome.
Michela Biasutti