Dr. Souleymane SY

Research associate

Regionales Klima und Hydrologie

Telefon:	+49 821 598 2428
E-Mail:	souleymane.sy@uni-auni-a.de ()
Raum:	1022 (B)
Sprechzeiten:	By arrangement
Adresse:	Alter Postweg 118, 86159 Augsburg

Kontakt (.vcf)

Research focus

? My research focuses mainly on:

Climate-vegetation interaction/feedback,
Climate extremes and land-use change impacts,
Global/regional climate/land surface modelling,
Land-based climate change mitigation,
Weather extreme attribution and uncertainties assessment

CURRICULUM VITAE

Since Nov-2021? ?Research Assistant, Chair of Regional Climate and Hydrology, Augsburg University, Germany
2018-2021? ? ? ? ?Research Associate (Post-doc) at National Research Council (CNR) of Italy Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA), Italy
2016-2017? ? ? ? ? Research Associate (Post-doc) at Ecological Monitoring Center (CSE),?Senegal
2012-2016? ? ? ? ? PhD in Environmental Sciences,? Sorbonnes University, Paris, France
2011-2012? ? ? ?MSc in Atmospheric physics at Polytechnic High School (Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique), Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal
2006-2009? ? ? ? Study of Physics at Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal

PUBLICATIONS

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Guug S.,?Sy Souleymane., Quansah E., Bliefernicht J., Neidl F., Steinbrecher R., Ayamba M., Frempong A., Davies P., Spangenberg I., Oussou F.E., Diallo B.A., Salack S., Hackman K., Amekudzi L.K., Ogunjobi K., Kunstmann H.?(2025): Methane emissions from rice cultivation in West Africa and compensation options from nature reserve forests,?Environmental Research Letters,?in press, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adc28c).

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Seydou A.N.Y.,?Sy, Souleymane, Quesada B., Bliefernicht J., Manevski K., Amekudzi L., Appiah-Adjei E., Ogunjobi K.O., Traore B., Gyamfi C., Kunstmann H.: Biophysical effects of land cover changes in West Africa: a systematic review (Under review, Environmental Research Letters, Tropical Review).

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Rauch, Manuel, Jan Bliefernicht, Windmanagda Sawadogo,?Souleymane Sy, Moussa Waongo, and Harald Kunstmann. "Seasonal prediction of rainfall variability for the West African Sudan-Sahel."?Frontiers in Water?6?(2025): 1523898.?https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1523898??

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Nadolski L, Bliefernicht J, Petrovic D, Rauch M,?Sy, Souleymane,?Guug S, Steinbrecher R, Neidl F, Hingerl L and Kunstmann H?(2024)?Exploring and closing the energy balance of eddy covariance measurements along a land use gradient in the West African Sudanian savanna. Front. Water. 6:1393884.

https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1393884? ?

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Waongo, M.; Laux, P.; Coulibaly, A.;?Sy, Souleymane.; Kunstmann, H. Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Rainfed Maize Production in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Atmosphere?(2024), 15, 1438.?https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15121438

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Diedhiou S, Rauch M, Lahat Dieng A, Bliefernicht J,?Sy, Souleymane, Sall SM and Kunstmann H?(2024)?Extreme rainfall in Dakar (Senegal): a case study for September 5, 2020. Front. Water 6:1439404. doi: 10.3389/frwa.2024.1439404?

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Sy, Souleymane., Arnault, J., Bliefernicht, J., et al.?(2024). Afforestation in West Africa: Potential Benefits and Trade-offs on Regional Climate Extremes.?Preprint (Version 1)?available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4594282/v1].

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Ndiaye, A., Arnault, J., Mbaye, M. L.,?Sy, Souleymane., Camara, M., Lawin, A. E., & Kunstmann, H.?(2024). Potential Contribution of Land Cover Change on Flood Events in the Senegal River Basin. Frontiers in Water, 6:1447577. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1447577

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SY, Souleymane., Madonna, F.,Serva, F., Diallo, I., & Quesada, B.?(2024).Assessment of NA-CORDEX regional climate models, reanalysis and in situ gridded-observational data sets against the U.S.Climate Reference Network.International Journalof Climatology,44(1), 305–327.https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8331

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Arnault J, Mwanthi AM, Portele T, Li L, Rummler T, Fersch B, Hassan MA, Bahaga TK, Zhang Z, Mortey EM, Achugbu IC, Moutahir H,?SY, Souleymane, Wei J, Laux P, Sobolowski S and Kunstmann H?(2023)?Regional water cycle sensitivity to afforestation: synthetic numerical experiments for tropical Africa. Front. Clim. 5:1233536. doi: 10.3389/fclim.2023.1233536

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Bakary Faty, Geert Sterk, Abdou Ali,?Souleymane Sy, Honoré Dacosta, Salif Diop & Luc Descroix?(2023)?Satellite-based rainfall estimates to simulate daily streamflow using a hydrological model over Gambia watershed, Water Science, 37:1, 151-168, DOI: 10.1080/23570008.2023.2225898?

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MADONNA, Fabio, TRAMUTOLA, Emanuele,?SY, Souleymane,?et al.?The new Radiosounding HARMonization (RHARM) data set of homogenized radiosounding temperature, humidity, and wind profiles with uncertainties.?Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres,?(2022), vol. 127, no 2, p. e2021JD035220.

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DIOUF, Ibrahima,?SY, Souleymane, SENGHOR, Habib,?et al.?Potential contribution of climate conditions on COVID-19 pandemic transmission over West and North African countries.?Atmosphere,?2021, vol. 13, no 1, p. 34.

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Madonna, F.,?Sy, Souleymane., Tramutola, E., Serva, F., Proto, M., Rosoldi, M., ... & Thorne, P. W.?(2021). The new Radiosounding HARMonization (RHARM) dataset of homogenized radiosounding temperature, humidity and wind profiles with uncertainties. Part II: comparisons with reanalysis, satellite data and validation of uncertainties, in review in Journal of Geophysical Research, https://www.essoar.org/doi/abs/10.1002/essoar.10507042.1

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Madonna, F., Tramutola, E.,?Sy, Souleymane., Serva, F., Proto, M., Rosoldi, M., ... & Thorne, P. W.?(2021). The new Radiosounding HARMonization (RHARM) dataset of homogenized radiosounding temperature, humidity and wind profiles with uncertainties. Part I: dataset description and characterization, in review in Journal of Geophysical Research https://www.essoar.org/doi/10.1002/essoar.10507025.1

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Sy, Souleymane?et QUESADA, Benjamin. Anthropogenic land cover change impact on climate extremes during the 21st century.?Environmental Research Letters, (2020),?vol. 15, no 3, p. 034002 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab702c

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Sy, Souleymane., Madonna, F., Rosoldi, M., Tramutola, E., Gagliardi, S., Proto, M., Pappalardo, G., (2020).?Sensitivity of trends to estimation methods and quantification of subsampling effects in global radiosounding temperature and humidity time series. Int. J. Climatol,1-23.?https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/joc.6827

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Madonna, F., Tramutola, E.,?Sy, Souleymane., Serva, F., Proto, M., Rosoldi, M., Gagliardi, S., Amato, F., Marra, F., Fassò, A., Gardiner, T., Thorne, P.W.,?(2020). Radiosounding HARMonization (RHARM): a new homogenized dataset of radiosounding temperature, humidity and wind profiles with uncertainty. In review, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. 1–38. https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2020-183/essd-2020-183.pdf

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Sy. Souleymane.; Noblet-Ducoudré, N.D.; Quesada, B.; Sy, I.; Dieye, A.M.; Gaye, A.T.; Sultan, B. Land-Surface Characteristics and Climate in West Africa: Models’ Biases and Impacts of Historical Anthropogenically-Induced Deforestation.?Sustainability?(2017),?9, 1917. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/10/1917

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Sy.Souleymane, B. Sultan, A. T. Gaye?(2017).?Occupation des sols et changement climatique en Afrique de l'Ouest : Nouvelles parcelles d’agriculture, qui remplacent les forêts primaires, ont-elles un impact significatif sur le climat? Editions universitaires européennes (Géosciences)- ISBN-13: 978-3-639-62125-9,192p. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Occupation-changement-climatique-Afrique-lOuest/dp/3639621255

Links

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ORCID:?https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8834-7620??
ResearchGate:? https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Souleymane-Sy?
Google Citation: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=MJ4244sAAAAJ&hl=fr?

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