Climate Change and Rainfall Extremes in Africa

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 extremes
1. Rainfall variability across Africa/world
2. Understanding Extreme rainfall in Africa
3. Advancement of climate change and extremes attribution
4. Compound extremes
5. Climate data for understanding rainfall extremes in developing countries
6. The role of artificial intelligence in understanding extremes

Part 2: Regional rainfall and hydrological extremes
7. Tropical cyclones over South Eastern Africa
8. Drought variability over Southern Africa
9. Persistent droughts in Northern Africa
10. Flooding in West Africa
11. Unprecedented rising water levels in the East Africa; Lake Victoria Basin
12. Changes in rainfall concentration over Congo Basin

Part 3: Prediction, impacts and adaptation to rainfall extremes
13. Forecasting and monitoring of Extreme Rainfall over Africa
14. Review of economic implications of rainfall extreme events
15. Assessment of Loss and Damage of Extreme Rainfall Events
16. Perception and adaptation to climate extremes in Africa
17. Mainstreaming rainfall extreme adaptation and adaptation into planning and support for communities resilience around extreme rainfall events
18. Reducing vulnerability to extreme rainfall regional cooperation on integration of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation