Research Activities, Skills, Grants/Fellowships and Supervision of students
SKILLS in CLIMATE MODELLING
- Good skills in running complex regional climate models (Models used: RegCM4.3 of ICTP-Trieste / ITALY and WRF of NCAR / USA)
- Good skills in analysing large datasets and multi-model ensemble simulations
CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS
- Atmospheric Sciences
- Regional and Global Climate Modeling, climate change and Impacts
- Land Surface-Atmosphere interactions
- Characterization of aerosols and their impacts on the climate and on the available solar energy
- Heat waves and associated dynamics
- West african climate (especially African easterly waves) and the genesis of North Atlantic cyclones
- Variability and predictability of West african climate
-Assessment of solar and wind energy potentials
GRANTS/Fellowships
I have been awarded funding twice by " Le Fond d'Impulsion de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (FIRST)" du Ministère en charge de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche du Sénégal in 2010 and 2017:
Project on the Littoral (including the study of the links between the West African Climate and Cyclogenesis in the North Atlantic), Awarded in 2010.
Project on the Assessment of wind and solar energy potentials in the Basse Casamance Area and Impacts of meteorological conditions, Awarded in 2017.
Junior Associate Abdu Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Jan 2010 - Dec 2017, Earth System Physics section, Trieste, Italy
START/PACOM Doctoral Research Fellowship program, 2006, USA
French Research Institute for Development (IRD) fellowship (2002-2005)
SUPERVISED DOCTORAL THESES
1. Dr Alioune Badara SARR
Defence date: 17 December 2018
Thesis Title: Climate Change in West Africa: Climate Extremes and Agricultural Yields
2. Dr Ibrahima Diba
Date of defence: 14 December 2018
Thesis title: Numerical simulation of West African monsoon system: Impacts of land cover vegetation changes
3. Dr Jules Basse
Date of Defence ; 25 February 2023
Thesis title : Diagnostic and future evolution of characteristics of dry and wet spells in West Africa with a focus on Senegal
DOCTORAL THESES UNDER MY SUPERVISION
I am currently mentoring three (3) other doctoral students:
1. Mr Hamady Ngansou Sabaly: Assesment of solar and wind energy potentials in the Sahel region and impacts of environmental conditions
2. Pierre Malang Sadio
3. Assane NDiaye