![Dr. Alain Tamoffo]()
DAAD climapAfrica Postdoc Fellow
Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology Kumasi
Ghana
Alain T. Tamoffo is a junior researcher from the Laboratory for Environmental Modelling and Atmospheric Physics (LEMAP), Department of Physics, University of Yaoundé 1, Yaoundé, Cameroon. He holds a Master in Atmospheric Physics from University of Yaoundé I (Cameroon) and a PhD in Climate Change Modelling and Meteorology in Cameroon. Since 2017, Alain T. Tamoffo has collaborated with several others scientists I this field, from the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy and from the Rossby Centre, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden. Dr Alain T. Tamoffo research currently focuses on the Central Africa/Congo Basin climate system. He focuses on how Regional climate Models reproduce inter-linkages between precipitation and processes responsible for their generation. Also, He investigates how these inter-linkages will react due to global warming, in view to support sustainable socio-ecological transformation efforts.
Climate change expertise and interests
- Process-based evaluation of climate models
- Climate system modelling
- Climate variability and Climate Change modelling
- Regional and global climate modelling
- Climate Change Impact
- Atmospheric dynamics
Publications (most recent)
P1/ Alain T. Tamoffo · Grigory Nikulin · Derbetini A. Vondou · Alessandro Dosio · Robert Nouayou · Minchao Wu · Pascal M. Igri, (2021) Process‐based assessment of the impact of reduced turbulent mixingon Congo Basin precipitation in the RCA4 Regional Climate Model. Climate Dynamic DOI:10.1007/s00382-020-05571-1
P2/ Alain T. Tamoffo · Alessandro Dosio · Derbetini A. Vondou · Denis Sonkoué, (2020) Process‐Based Analysis of the Added Value of Dynamical Downscaling Over Central Africa. Geophysical Research Letters DOI:10.1029/2020GL089702
P3/ Dosio, A., Turner, A. G., Tamoffo, A. T., Sylla, M. B., Lennard, C., Jones, R. G., et al. (2020). A tale of two futures: Contrasting scenarios of future precipitation for West Africa from an ensemble of regional climate models. Environmental Research Letters, 15(6), 064007. DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ab7fde
I participate at climapAfrica because...
The climapafrica postdoctoral program offers me the opportunity to deepen my knowledge on climate science (through various training courses that the program offers). The working group is also an occasion to enrich my knowledge via exchanges with other members of the group. It is a unique opportunity to build my own network of researchers across the world and to establish interdisciplinary collaborations. The program offers a possibility for a short research stay in a Germany institution, which is also an opportunity to learn and to develop future collaborations. The financial support the program offers allows quality research as it helps for the documentation and even to acquire the necessary data for the realisation of the proposal.
