Abstract
Rain flooding during June on the West Africa coastal area is analyzed by using the 95th and 75th percentiles, which represent extreme and intense rainfall events respectively. Thus, the contribution of these events that reaches around 50% shows their impact on the rainfall in June. Atmospheric and oceanic factors influence the rain flooding. Indeed, the extreme events are associated with easterly waves propagating from 20°E, while those of intense events are initiated around 5°E. The impact of oceanic conditions exhibits the warming of the equatorial rail and the Atlantic cold tongue, the warming of the whole ocean basin and a north-south dipole of SST anomalies. The West African monsoon that reaches Abidjan corresponds to a low-level atmospheric flow, whose upward motion extends in latitude from the ocean to the continent. An increase of disturbance contributes to enhancing these events. This is confirmed by the inflow on to the continent of oceanic moisture coming from the ventilation by evaporation of warm water. In addition, the coupled ocean-atmosphere simulations are one of the best candidates that could help to better explain these dramatic events. This study is useful because of showing solutions that could help in adoption of policies for the risks management related to these events.
Highlights
IntroductionIts area is 322,462 km and the population is around 23.7 million according to the latest 2014 census carried out by the “Institut National de la Statistique” (http://www.ins.ci/n/)
The West African monsoon that reaches Abidjan corresponds to a low-level atmospheric flow, whose upward motion extends in latitude from the ocean to the continent
It shows the interannual evolution of the cumulative rainfall events above the 75th and the 95th percentile thresholds
Summary
Its area is 322,462 km and the population is around 23.7 million according to the latest 2014 census carried out by the “Institut National de la Statistique” (http://www.ins.ci/n/). Côte d’Ivoire has experienced climatic fluctuations marked by severe droughts, as an example those of 1983 and 1994 which had significant social and economic impacts [1], with increasing wildfires, the loss of some cash crops and lower yields of food crops. This region has undergone exceptional rainfall in 1968 and 1984 [2], and 1987 [3] which had negative social and economic impacts
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