![Dr. Rodric Nonki]()
DAAD climapAfrica Postdoc Fellow
Université d'Abomey-Calavi
WASCAL – LACEEDE/IGATE
Benin
Rodric M. Nonki 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 PhD in Atmospheric Sciences with a focus on hydrological modeling and climate change impacts assessment. He is now a postdoctoral researcher of the DAAD Climate Research Alumni and Postdocs in Africa program hosted by the WASCAL UAC, Cotonou, Benin. During his PhD study, he has collaborated with several other scientists in this field, from the Climate System Analysis Group, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, and from the Congo Basin Water Resources Research Center, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is also involved in many research programs such as CORDEX-Africa, especially in Vulnerability-Impacts-Adaptation (VIA) team and the UNESCO IHP FRIEND-Water program. The CORDEX-Africa VIA team has been commissioned by the World Climate Research Program, a body of the World Meteorological Organization, to develop a coordinated strategy to quantify the impacts of climate change in the sectors of hydrology, agriculture, biodiversity, and health over Africa. During the ClimapAfrica fellowship, he plans to use a multi-model ensemble from CORDEX-Africa matrix to quantify the range of uncertainty of climate change impacts signal on hydrology and hydropower potential under Global Warming Levels through hydrological modeling.
Climate change expertise and interests
-Hydro-climatology
-Hydrological modeling
-Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis
-Global and Regional climate modeling
-Climate change impact assessment
Publications – (most recent)
Rodric M. Nonki, André Lenouo, Raphael M. Tshimanga, Francine C. Donfack, Clément Tchawoua (2021): “Performance assessment and uncertainty prediction of a daily time-step HBV-Light rainfall-runoff model for the Upper Benue River Basin, Northern Cameroon”. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 36, 100849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100849.4
Rodric M. Nonki, André Lenouo, Christopher J. Lennard, Raphael M. Tshimanga and Clément Tchawoua (2021): “Comparison between dynamic and static sensitivity analysis approaches for impact assessment of different potential evapotranspiration methods on hydrological models performance”. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22(10), 2713–2730. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0192.1
Rodric M. Nonki, André Lenouo, Clément Tchawoua, Christopher J. Lennard and Ernest Amoussou (2021): “Impact of climate change on hydropower potential of the Lagdo dam, Benue River Basin, Northern Cameroon”. Proceedings of the International Association of the Hydrological Sciences, 384, 337-342. https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-384-337-2021
Professional interests
Lecturer and Researcher
I participate at climapAfrica because...
Improving the well-being of the African populations under changing environmental conditions is my main motivation. ClimapAfrica will provide a platform to work in thematic working groups composed of postdoctoral fellows and African Alumni of German funding initiatives with expertise in the field of climate research. This will help me to develop knowledge and expertise on climate change over Africa which is required for any adaptation and mitigation strategies.
