%0 Journal Article
%T Validation of Monthly Data of Temperature and Precipitation over West Africa from Simulations of CORDEX-CORE Ensemble
%A Alphonse Um Um
%A Cyrille Meukaleuni
%A Eric Efon
%A Brice Baudouin Sandjeu Wandjie
%A Rinelle Djiondo Ngongang
%A Alain Tchio Tamoffo
%A Carine Betant
%A Andre Lenouo
%J Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection
%P 422-443
%@ 2327-4344
%D 2025
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/gep.2025.131021
%X We analysed nine simulations from dynamic downscaling to a horizontal resolution of approximately 25 km of three general circulation models (GCMs). These GCMs use three regional climate models (RCMs) that participated in the coordinated downscaling experiment (CORDEX-CORE). These simulations were compared to three datasets of reanalysis. The ERA5 for temperature at 2 metres and for precipitation, Climate Hazards Center InfraRed Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) and African Rainfall Climatology from the Famine Early Warning System (FEWS-ARC) were used. To give an overview of these nine model experiments, we presented and compared the results of the latter with the reanalysis taken into account for the period 1983 - 2005. The results indicated that the nine models correctly reproduced the temperature and rainfall in West Africa during the historical period. In the Guinean coast region, REMO-NorESM1 and RegCM4-MPI-MR models well simulated precipitation and temperature during the historical period. In the Savannah region, RegCM4-NorESM1, CCLM5-MPI-LR, REMO-NorESM1, CCLM5-NorESM1 and CCLM5-HadGEM2 model gave best result. In the Sahel region, the RegCM4-HadGEM2 model gave a good correlation. Using the Taylor diagram in the historical period, all CORDEX-CORE RCMs had a strong relationship with temperature.
%K CORDEX-CORE
%K Regional Climate Model Evaluation
%K ERA5
%K CHIRPS
%K FEWS-ARC
%K West Africa
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=140350