DAAD climapAfrica Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Cape Town
African Climate and Development Initiative
South Africa
Romaric C. Odoulami is passionate about climate research and how it can contribute to enhancing human development outcomes in a changing climate. He is developing his research career around climate-related themes relevant to African communities in order to provide policymakers with robust scientific evidence that can influence policy and practice in Africa. His research aim is to develop ways to better connect African communities to their changing climate system so that they can better understand and manage the risks to which they are vulnerable.
Romaric's research has spanned climate modelling, climate change attribution, and climate extremes analysis in Africa. He has worked on understanding the underlying mechanisms driving the “Day Zero” drought that caused the Cape Town water crisis in 2017-2018 and, on quantifying human influence on the drought’s likelihood and severity using the science of event attribution.
More recently he has developed interest in applying the concept of attribution science to quantify changes in risk for agricultural insurance, and therefore insurance cost in Africa.
Climate change expertise and interests
Climate change attribution, climate extreme analysis, climate change mitigation, Geoengineering, climate change and agriculture, and climate modelling.a
Publications (most recent)
Pinto I, Jack C, Lennard C, et al (2020) Africa’s Climate Response to Solar Radiation Management With Stratospheric Aerosol. Geophys Res Lett 47(2): https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086047
Yapo ALM, Diawara A, Yoroba F, et al (2019) Twenty-First Century Projected Changes in Extreme Temperature over Côte d’Ivoire (West Africa). Int J Geophys 2019:1–19. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/5610328
Otto FEL, Wolski P, Lehner F, et al (2018) Anthropogenic influence on the drivers of the Western Cape drought 2015–2017. Environ Res Lett 13:124010. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aae9f9
I participate at climapAfrica because...
This is an opportunity to contribute to the development of a more reliable and affordable agricultural risk management strategies by using weather and climate attribution and parametric insurance risk modelling.
