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Jan 30, 2019Open AccessArticle
Earthglobe is almost at flash point with respect to global heat contents and temperature and any sizeable further addition of heat to its environment will result into huge disaster of life, property and infrastructure at multiple locations on the globe. The recent example of this is the aftermath of Cali-fornian forest fires (2017-2018) and Hawaii volcano eruption as elaborated in this treatise. This has resulted into 7 main catas ...
Oct 24, 2018Open AccessArticle
Atmospheric aerosols are posing a great threat to the already stressed climate with the effects being felt more on African continent. Their presence and interaction with the clouds contribute to the strongest uncertainty in aerosol characteristics and Earth’s energy budget hence; calling for a long term assessment to be done. The present study analyses long term spatiotemporal microphysical aerosol characteristics (namely: effecti ...
Aug 31, 2018Open AccessArticle
In a world of increasing population and consumption, there is a pressing need to use our resources in the best possible way. This involves reducing the generation of waste, achieving high-quality recycling and efficient use of the residual waste for highly productive clean energy generation. A waste-to-energy facility may generate a range of energy outputs such as electricity, district heating, steam for industrial processes and m ...
Aug 30, 2018Open AccessArticle
Shortwave radiation (SWR) is having direct impact on
sea surface temperature (SST). In this paper the relation between SWR and SST
has been over east and west Pacific Ocean. TAO/TRITON buoy data have been used for this study. It is well known that El
Nino phenomenon is related to SST anomalies and warmer temperatures can observe
over eastern Pacific Ocean (EP) leading to strong El Nino. The relation between
eastern and western Pac ...
Aug 23, 2018Open AccessArticle
Self-Organizing
Map (SOM) analysis is used to perform optical characteri- zation of both Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) and
Angstrom Exponent (AE) retrieved from Moderate-resolution
Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) in relation to Precipitation Rate (PR)
from Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) over selected East African
sites from 2000 to 2014 and further diagnose climate change over the region if
any. SOM reveals a marked ...
Apr 27, 2018Open AccessArticle
The identification and classicization of both
natural and anthropogenic atmospheric aerosols originating from different
region is becoming very useful when dealing with effect of air quality.
Different areas may encounter the problem of dust storm events which is
harmfully to the environment and human health. This thesis works focused mainly
on the evaluation of level 1.5 data from Sunphotometer remote sensing to
understa ...
Mar 06, 2018Open AccessArticle
The air mass back-trajectory clustering analysis was
combined with Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) of fine mode, coarse mode and fine
mode fraction in order to evaluate the long-range effects of transportation
patterns of trajectories for the ground based station at ICIPE Mbita which is
located on longitude and latitude of 34.2°E, 0.417°S respectively at 1125
meters above sea ...
Feb 28, 2018Open AccessArticle
This research work aims to study the perceptions of
pastoralists and agro- pastoralists
on climate change impacts on mobile herding and the effectiveness of herders’ adaptive strategies
within Kompienga Province, south-eastern region of Burkina Faso. In order to
achieve this aim, survey data were retrieved from 271 respondents and analysed.
From respondents’ perceptions, climate change is real and is negatively
affecting forage av ...
Feb 27, 2018Open AccessArticle
This study used daily observation data obtained from
the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) to investigate the temperature trend
of Nigeria from 1981-2015. The data were homogenised using the Quantile
Matching (QM) method and Quality Controlled. The data have been transformed
into three sets of data with different periods: daily, monthly and yearly. The
datasets (daily, monthly and yearly) were checked for autocorrelation and ...
Nov 21, 2017Open AccessArticle
This paper focuses on the investigation of sea
surface temperature (SST) and the rainfall variations due to typhoon CHAN-HOM
and Nangka occurred in 2015 over Northwest Pacific Ocean (NPO). On 7-13 July,
the SST cooling area occurred mainly in the middle of the two typhoons track,
the maximum SST decline reached more than 4℃ during typhoon CHAN-HOM and Nangka passage. Due to
the collective effe ...
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