Volume 5, Issue 19, July - September, 2019 (In progress)

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Changing climates have had considerable effect on the erratic rainfall and temperature patterns over the years for both locally and nationally for Ghana. The main objective of this paper is to perform a Mann-Kendall trend analysis of rainfall and temperature variables spanning the period 1986-2015 for the South-central districts of Ghana. The trend analysis was used as proxies to analyze the changing trends of rainfall and temperature regimes within four seasons Pre-Harmattan, Harmattan, Post-Harmattan and the Wet Seasons, to correspond with local 'Autumn', 'Winter', 'Spring' and 'Summer' respectively. Results for temperature indicated that the maximum temperature for the period was 29.55°C recorded in the Post-Harmattan season in the years 1990 and 1998; whereas the minimum temperature was 22.5°C recorded in the Harmattan season in the year 2008. Results for the rainfall indicated that the month of June which is the Wet season recorded the maximum rainfall of 379.5mm in the year 2010; whereas the minimum rainfall was recorded in the Harmattan months. The results indicate that rainfall and temperature do not have monotonic trends.

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Climate Change & Atmospheric Science

Analysis of temperature and rainfall trends as proxy for seasonal climatic variability in South-Central Ghana

Divine Odame Appiah, Keren-Happuch Obeku

Changing climates have had considerable effect on the erratic rainfall and temperature patterns over the years for both locally and nationally for Ghana.

Climate Change, 2019, 5(19), 131-140

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Regional scale spatiotemporal trends of precipitation and temperatures over Afghanistan

Rehana S, Krishna Reddy P, Sai Bhaskar Reddy N, Abdul Raheem Daud, Shoaib Saboory, Shoaib Khaksari, Tomer SK

Afghanistan is the most vulnerable to climate extremes related hazards, including droughts and floods that have caused huge impact on the socio-economic development of the country.

Climate Change, 2019, 5(19), 141-149

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Climate Change & Agriculture

Measurement of technical efficiency of climatic and non-climatic factors in sugarcane farming in Indian States: Use of stochastic frontier production function approach

Ajay Kumar Singh, Narayanan KGS, Pritee Sharma

Extensive research studies have estimated the influence of climate change on sugarcane yield in India. However, most studies concise their investigations up to one state or group of few states of the nation.

Climate Change, 2019, 5(19), 150-166

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