Francois Klein - Research

East African precipitation variability

2013-ongoing

Most of the East African’s agriculture depends on the amount and the seasonal occurrence of rainfall. This, with other factors such as rapid changes in land use associated to population growth, makes this region very sensitive to climate change. However, there is no consensus on the future climate change of this region, the drivers responsible for the East African precipitation variability being poorly understood...

Mid-Holocene Arctic sea ice data assimilation

2012-2013

Proxy based reconstructions and results from climate models can both be used to study past climate changes. Data assimilation allows to combine them in order to obtain estimates of the past climate changes that are consistent with the proxies, the physics of the models and the forcings that drive these models...