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Victor Ongoma is affiliated with Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco and focuses their research on environmental and earth sciences. Their work spans a range of topics within climate variability, meteorology, and hydrology, with particular attention to trends and impacts affecting Africa.

The main fields of study for Victor Ongoma include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Subfields of study relevant to their research are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Forestry

Their research addresses several key topics such as:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • African Botany and Ecology Studies

Victor Ongoma has co-authored work with a number of researchers, including:

  • Brian Ayugi
  • Hassen Babaousmail
  • Abdelghani Chehbouni
  • Hamida Ngoma
  • Kenny Thiam Choy Lim Kam Sian

Frequently publishing in multiple scientific journals, their main publication venues are:

  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Atmosphere
  • Preprints.org
  • Atmospheric Research
  • Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Among their recent papers are:

  • Evaluation of CMIP6 models in simulating the statistics of extreme precipitation over Eastern Africa, 2021, Atmospheric Research
  • Evaluation of Meteorological Drought and Flood Scenarios over Kenya, East Africa, 2020, Atmosphere
  • Review of Meteorological Drought in Africa: Historical Trends, Impacts, Mitigation Measures, and Prospects, 2022, Pure and Applied Geophysics
  • Evaluation of the Performance of CMIP6 Models in Reproducing Rainfall Patterns over North Africa, 2021, Atmosphere
  • Evaluation of precipitation simulations in CMIP6 models over Uganda, 2021, International Journal of Climatology

Best Publications

  • Temporal and spatial variability of temperature and precipitation over East Africa from 1951 to 2010

    Victor Ongoma;Victor Ongoma;Haishan Chen

  • Review of Meteorological Drought in Africa: Historical Trends, Impacts, Mitigation Measures, and Prospects

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  • Evaluation of CMIP6 models in simulating the statistics of extreme precipitation over Eastern Africa

    Akintomide Afolayan Akinsanola;Victor Ongoma;Gabriel J. Kooperman

  • Projected changes in mean rainfall and temperature over East Africa based on CMIP5 models

    Victor Ongoma;Victor Ongoma;Haishan Chen;Chujie Gao

  • Evaluation of Meteorological Drought and Flood Scenarios over Kenya, East Africa

    Brian Ayugi;Guirong Tan;Rouyun Niu;Zeyao Dong

  • Evaluation of the Performance of CMIP6 Models in Reproducing Rainfall Patterns over North Africa

    Hassen Babaousmail;Rongtao Hou;Brian Ayugi;Moses Ojara

  • Evaluation of CMIP5 twentieth century rainfall simulation over the equatorial East Africa

    Victor Ongoma;Victor Ongoma;Haishan Chen;Chujie Gao

  • Variability of extreme weather events over the equatorial East Africa, a case study of rainfall in Kenya and Uganda

    Victor Ongoma;Victor Ongoma;Haishan Chen;George William Omony

  • Projected changes in meteorological drought over East Africa inferred from bias-adjusted CMIP6 models

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  • Future Changes in Precipitation Extremes over East Africa Based on CMIP6 Models

    Brian Ayugi;Victor Dike;Hamida Ngoma;Hassen Babaousmail

  • Historical evaluations and simulations of precipitation over East Africa from Rossby centre regional climate model

    Brian Ayugi;Guirong Tan;Gnim Tchalim Gnitou;Moses Ojara

  • Evaluation of precipitation simulations in CMIP6 models over Uganda

    Hamida Ngoma;Hamida Ngoma;Wang Wen;Brian Ayugi;Hassen Babaousmail

  • Evaluation and projection of mean surface temperature using CMIP6 models over East Africa

    Brian Ayugi;Hamida Ngoma;Hamida Ngoma;Hassen Babaousmail;Rizwan Karim

  • Climate variability and farmers’ perception in Southern Ethiopia

    Befikadu Esayas;Belay Simane;Ermias Teferi;Victor Ongoma

  • Temporal and spatial evolution of the standard precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) in the Tana River Basin, Kenya

    Francis Polong;Haishan Chen;Sanlei Sun;Victor Ongoma

  • Future changes in climate extremes over Equatorial East Africa based on CMIP5 multimodel ensemble

    Victor Ongoma;Victor Ongoma;Haishan Chen;Chujie Gao;Aston Matwai Nyongesa;Aston Matwai Nyongesa

  • Water resources pollution associated with risks of heavy metals from Vatukoula Goldmine region, Fiji.

    Satendra Kumar;Abu Reza Md Towfiqul Islam;H.M. Touhidul Islam;Hasanuzzaman

  • Inter-comparison of remotely sensed precipitation datasets over Kenya during 1998-2016

    Brian Ayugi;Guirong Tan;Waheed Ullah;Richard Boiyo

  • East African population exposure to precipitation extremes under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming levels based on CMIP6 models

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  • Multi-Decadal Variability and Future Changes in Precipitation over Southern Africa

    Kenny Thiam Choy Lim Kam Sian;Jianhong Wang;Brian Odhiambo Ayugi;Isaac Kwesi Nooni

  • Trends in Extreme Climate Events over Three Agroecological Zones of Southern Ethiopia

    Befikadu Esayas;Belay Simane;Ermias Teferi;Victor Ongoma

  • The impacts of topography on spatial and temporal rainfall distribution over Rwanda based on WRF model

    Didier Ntwali;Bob Alex Ogwang;Victor Ongoma

  • Influence of Mascarene high and Indian Ocean dipole on East African extreme weather events

    Bob Ogwang;Victor Ongoma;Li Xing;Faustin Ogou

  • Projections of future meteorological drought events under representative concentration pathways (RCPs) of CMIP5 over Kenya, East Africa

    Guirong Tan;Brian Ayugi;Hamida Ngoma;Victor Ongoma;Victor Ongoma

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter John Huybers
Peter John Huybers Harvard University
Yunfei Fu
Yunfei Fu University of Science and Technology of China
Mohammad S. Alam
Mohammad S. Alam Texas A&M University – Kingsville

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