Naomi Kumi is in her second year pursuing a PhD in West African Climate System (WACS) under the West African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) Graduate Research Program (GRP), at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Akure, Nigeria. The focus of her PhD thesis is to improve seasonal rainfall forecast over West Africa using regional climate model (RCM). This she hopes to achieve by exploring some of the existing seasonal forecasting methods using global model output data, and then improve these methods using RCM. Her primary objective is to identify a convective scheme that performs well over West Africa, and then modify it, to perform better over the study area. Currently, she is a visiting student at the Climate System Analysis Group, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. She obtained her Master’s degree in meteorology (MSc) from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 2012. She also holds a B.Ed. Science (Physics & Mathematics) from the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.

Publication:

Kumi, N., & Abiodun, B. J. (2018). Potential impacts of 1.5° C and 2° C global warming on rainfall onset, cessation and length of rainy season in West Africa. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aab89e