Abstract:Abstract. This study uses the high resolution outputs of the recent CORDEX-AFRICA climate projections to investigate the future changes in different aspects of the hydrological cycle over West Africa. Over the twenty-first century, temperatures in West Africa are expected to increase at a faster rate (+ 0.5 °C per decade) than the global average (+ 0.3 °C per decade), and mean precipitation is expected to increase over the Guinea Coast (+ 0.03 mm/day per decade) but decrease over the Sahel (− 0.005 mm/day per … Show more
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