Publications
Leapfrogging the darkness: contextualising the meaning of energy transitions for African countries Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Effects of idealized land cover and land management changes on the atmospheric water cycle Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Land cover and land management changes (LCLMCs) play an important role in achieving low-end warming scenarios through land-based mitigation. However, their effects on moisture fluxes and recycling remain uncertain, although they have important implications for the future viability of such strategies. Here, we analyse the impact of idealized LCLMC scenarios on atmospheric moisture transport in three different Earth system model (ESMs): the ...
Possible role of anthropogenic climate change in the record-breaking 2020 Lake Victoria levels and floods Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Complementarity of wind and solar power in North Africa: Potential for alleviating energy droughts and impacts of the North Atlantic Oscillation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Scenario setup and forcing data for impact model evaluation and impact attribution within the third round of the Inter-Sectoral Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3a) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper describes the rationale and the protocol of the first component of the third simulation round of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3a, http://www.isimip.org, last access: 2 November 2023) and the associated set of climate-related and direct human forcing data (CRF and DHF, respectively). The observation-based climate-related forcings for the first time include high-resolution observational climate ...
Need for harmonized long-term multi-lake monitoring of African Great Lakes Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Antwerp KU Leuven
To ensure the long-term sustainable use of African Great Lakes (AGL), and to better understand the functioning of these ecosystems, authorities, managers and scientists need regularly collected scientific data and information of key environmental indicators over multi-years to make informed decisions. Monitoring is regularly conducted at some sites across AGL; while at others sites, it is rare or conducted irregularly in response to sporadic ...
Functional relationships reveal differences in the water cycle representation of global water models Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Drought characteristics in Mediterranean under future climate change Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Stakeholder-guided, model-based scenarios for a climate- and water-smart electricity transition in Ghana and Burkina Faso Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In support of West Africa's potential energy transition under climate change, an international team of scientists and a wide range of local stakeholders in Ghana and Burkina Faso jointly assessed different mitigation and adaptation pathways for energy and water supply and demand, including their implications for achieving SDGs, in a transdisciplinary approach. They iteratively co-developed a range of future scenarios based on i) stakeholder ...