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Potential impacts of stratospheric aerosol injection on drought risk managements over major river basins in Africa

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  • Babatunde J. Abiodun

    (University of Cape Town)

  • Romaric C. Odoulami

    (University of Cape Town)

  • Windmanagda Sawadogo

    (University of Augsburg)

  • Olumuyiwa A. Oloniyo

    (University of Cape Town)

  • Abayomi A. Abatan

    (University of Exeter)

  • Mark New

    (University of Cape Town)

  • Christopher Lennard

    (University of Cape Town)

  • Pinto Izidine

    (University of Cape Town)

  • Temitope S. Egbebiyi

    (University of Cape Town)

  • Douglas G. MacMartin

    (Cornell University)

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Most socio-economic activities in Africa depend on the continent’s river basins, but effectively managing drought risks over the basins in response to climate change remains a big challenge. While studies have shown that the stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) intervention could mitigate temperature-related climate change impacts over Africa, there is a dearth of information on how the SAI intervention could influence drought characteristics and drought risk managements over the river basins. The present study thus examines the potential impacts of climate change and the SAI intervention on droughts and drought management over the major river basins in Africa. Multi-ensemble climate simulation datasets from the Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Large Ensemble (GLENS) Project were analysed for the study. The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) and the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) were used to characterize the upper and lower limits of future drought severity, respectively, over the basins. The SPEI is a function of rainfall and potential evapotranspiration, whereas the SPI is only a function of rainfall, so the difference between the two indices is influenced by atmospheric evaporative demand. The results of the study show that, while the SAI intervention, as simulated in GLENS, may offset the impacts of climate change on temperature and atmospheric evaporative demand, the level of SAI that compensates for temperature change would overcompensate for the impacts on precipitation and therefore impose a climate water balance deficit in the tropics. SAI would narrow the gaps between SPEI and SPI projections over the basins by reducing SPEI drought frequency through reduced temperature and atmospheric evaporative demand while increasing SPI drought frequency through reduced rainfall. The narrowing of this gap lowers the level of uncertainty regarding future changes in drought frequency, but nonetheless has implications for future drought management in the basins, because while SAI lowers the upper limit of the future drought stress, it also raises the lower limit of the drought stress.

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  • Babatunde J. Abiodun & Romaric C. Odoulami & Windmanagda Sawadogo & Olumuyiwa A. Oloniyo & Abayomi A. Abatan & Mark New & Christopher Lennard & Pinto Izidine & Temitope S. Egbebiyi & Douglas G. MacMar, 2021. "Potential impacts of stratospheric aerosol injection on drought risk managements over major river basins in Africa," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 169(3), pages 1-19, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:climat:v:169:y:2021:i:3:d:10.1007_s10584-021-03268-w
    DOI: 10.1007/s10584-021-03268-w
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