Lamptey

Benjamin Lantei Lamptey [email protected]

ADDRESS African Center of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) 55 Avenue des Ministries, PL6 BP 13184, 1st District, Niamey - Plateau, Niger. Tel. (+227) 20 73.49.92 Fax: (+227) 20 72 36 27 Mobile: (+227) 96 64 56 55; (+227) 94864106 (Niger) or (+233) 265121750 () http://www.acmad.net

SEX Male NATIONALITY Ghanaian MARITAL STATUS Married with two children

SUMMARY OF EXPERTISE/PERSONAL SKILLS • Environmental Applications: Science and Impacts of climate variability and Global Environmental Change, modeling weather, climate and climate change, climate change adaptation, remote sensing, meteorological applications to different sectors (e.g. Water Resources, Disaster Risk Management, Agriculture, Health, Energy including hydropower and oil and gas), Land Use/Land Cover Change, Research, Education and Training • Geosciences: Earth surface processes (geomorphology and sedimentology), application of Geostatistics, Bayesian Statistics and Artificial Neural Networks to geophysical systems, research • Information Systems: Information Systems development and management, Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) • High Performance Computing: Writing and running parallel computer programs, education and training • Computer Programming Languages/Analysis and Visualization packages: Fortran, Matlab, R, NCAR Command Language (NCL), parallel programming using MPI • Project Design/formulation, Project Management: Experience in design and management of projects. • Training and Capacity Development: Involved in capacity development, has strong interest in promoting capacity development, local knowledge development, community development through cooperation programmes particularly meeting user needs at the community level by providing appropriate services. Desirous in promoting state of the art tools for analysis and visualization. Very strong ability for reasoning and strategizing ideas, particularly weather and climate services targeted at different sectors (e.g. water resources, climate resilient agriculture, etc.).

PERSONAL SKILLS

Languages UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING English Very Good Very Good Very Good French Fair Fair

Communication skills • Good communication skills acquired from my work as a meteorologist, teacher and administrative positions held

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Organizational/managerial • Leadership (currently in charge of 30 people) skills • ACMAD: Deputy Director General and currently Acting Director General • Regional Maritime University , Ghana: Acting Head of Nautical Science Department; Acting Dean of Graduate School • Ghana Meteorological Agency: Weather Forecaster in charge of a shift; Head of Climatology Division

Computer skills • Good command of Microsoft Office tools • Good command of Windows, Linux and Macintosh Operating Systems • Good data management skills acquired from creating and managing Ghana national climatological database and training in Computing and Information Systems.

EDUCATION • The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (USA) Degree o PhD in Geosciences Received: o Minor: High Performance Computing August 2005 o Advisor: Prof. Eric J. Barron o Dissertation: The Role of Land Cover Change in Long-Term Climate Change (specifically, modeling aspect)

• The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (USA) Degree o Master of Science in Meteorology Received: o Advisor: Prof. Gregory S. Jenkins August 2001 o Thesis: Regional Climate Simulation over West Africa During Summer 1988

• London College of Business & Computing, London, England (UK) Post- o University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations Diploma in Graduate Computing & Information Systems Diploma o Project: An Information System for the Basic Observational Network Received: Division of the Ghana Meteorological Agency June 1998

• The University of Reading, Reading (UK) Degree o Master of Science in Applied and Agricultural Meteorology Received: o Advisor: Dr. David Grimes September o Thesis: Comparison of Rainfall Variability Trends from Satellite 1997 Imagery and Conventional Data over Sahelian Africa o Team Project: UK Air Quality (handled measurement and monitoring)

• Meteorological Office College, Shinfield Park, Reading (U.K) Certification o Certificate in Weather Forecasting Earned: June 1990

• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi (Ghana) Degree o Bachelor of Science (HONS) in Physics Received: o Project: A study of the decay scheme of phosphorus-30 June 1984

FURTHER TRAINING • Monitoring for Environment and Security in Africa (MESA) Training on May 14-18, Financial and Contractual Procedures in the framework of the European 2014 Development Fund. African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD), Niamey, Niger. Organized by MESA secretariat.

• Workshop on Climate Change Development and Adaptation by Reducing May 10 – 14 2010

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Vulnerability (CC DARE). African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD), Niamey Niger. Organized by UNEP RISÆ Centre for Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development and ACMAD

• Workshop on Water Resources in Developing Countries: Planning and Apr 27-May Management in a Climate Change Scenario. The Abdus Salam International 8 2009 Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

• Capacity Building Workshop on Climate Change Adaptation for Agriculture August 17- Workshop objective: To enhance capacity of Africa on climate risk 29 2008 management and climate change adaptation for Agriculture. IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) in Nairobi,

• University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Certificate in Management Certification (USA) Earned: June 2007

• The Third ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models. May 29- The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy June 9, 2006

• , Geography Department (Remote Sensing Applications November Unit)/United Nations Environment Program 1995 o Pilot Training Workshop on Environmental Resource Information Management

• The University of Reading July to o Summer course in the Management and Analysis of Statistical Data September (Statistics in Agricultural Climatology) 1994

• Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration/ University of May to June Bradford 1994 o Training Workshop on Project Management

• Food and Agricultural Organization Regional Office Accra November o World Meteorological Organization/Food and Agricultural 1993 Organization Roving Training Seminar on Applications of Climatic Data for Effective Planning & Development

HONORS • Elected to Meteorology Honor Society of Chi Epsilon Pi, for demonstrated October interest and ability in meteorology (Pennsylvania State University, USA) 1998

• Certificate of Honor for dedicated services while teaching Physics in December Secondary School, Ghana 1985

FELLOWSHIP Senior Associate of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics 2009 to (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy date

WORK EXPERIENCE • African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) Acting Director General January 1, 2017 to date Deputy Director General o Summary of duties: September

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§ Assists Director General in implementation of the Strategic 2013 to Plan, coordination of research activities, coordination and December capacity building activities dedicated to National 2016 Meteorological Services and stakeholders and resource mobilization. § In charge of technical and scientific activities. Provides technical and scientific coordination of all duties including those conducted by the projects. Involved in technical and scientific aspects of projects including planning and implementation of activities to ensure harmonization at the Centre. § Supervises operational and development activities, contributes to the preparation and supervision of Centre's projects formulation

o Project Coordinator of African Development Bank funded Sept 2013 to Institutional Strengthening of African Climate Institutions Project December (ISACIP) – UA 20 Million 2016

o Project focal point (“Coordinator”) of European Union funded Sept 2013 to Monitoring of the Environment and Security in Africa Project (MESA). December Until Grant proposal approved in September and Partners Meeting 12 2014 and Technical Round Table held from 8-12th December 2014 (Week 13) – 2.3 Million Euros o ACMAD Project Coordinator of UK Department for International 2016 to date Development (DFID) funded Future Climate For Africa – UKMO global consortium on Improving Modeled Processes for African Climate (IMPALA) – GBP 40k o Designed and wrote proposal for the African Development Bank May 2015 to Funded Satellite and Weather Information for Disaster Resilience in date Africa (SAWIDRA) Project and currently overseeing its implementation- A Continental Numerical Modeling Project – 5.79 Million Euros o ACMAD Focal Point for the West Africa Hub of the AGRHYMET led July 2016 to Consortium of the NASA-USAID funded SERVIR Project date

o Partook in the University of Leeds led consortium (World Oct 2017 to Meteorological Organization, UK and African partners) whose date proposal won the about GBP 8 million Research Councils of the United Kingdom (RCUK)/Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) funded African Science for Weather Information and Forecasting Techniques (SWIFT) Project. The amount for ACMAD is GBP 383, 999. Project duration: 1st Oct 2017 to 31st December 2021

• Regional Maritime University (Africa) January Senior Lecturer 2009 to o Lectures in Physics, Mathematics and Meteorology September o Class Advisor for the second-year students of the Bachelor of Science 2013 in Nautical Studies program o Class Advisor for the diploma (Navy) students of the Pre-Sea Deck in Nautical Studies program

o Member of the Nautical Science Department Performance Improvement Team o Member of the Nautical Science Department Examinations Committee o Chairman Nautical Science Department Project Committee o Chairman Nautical Science Department Moderation Committee o Acting Head of Nautical Science Department February 1, 2013 to September

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March 1, o Acting Dean of School of Graduate Studies 2013 to September 2013

• National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA) September Postdoctoral fellow 2005 to o Running the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model over September West Africa in both weather prediction and climate modes 2007 o Running the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Land Model (CLM) over West Africa in off-line mode o Involved in African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) project o Involved in University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Africa Initiative (http://www.africa.ucar.edu)

Ghana Meteorological Services Department (Africa) January Meteorologist/Senior Meteorologist 1992 to Head of Climatology Division August 1998 o Managed personnel, Managed Climatic Database, Analyzed Climatological Data o Taught in Departmental Training School o Provided meteorological data and information to various user agencies

Systems Administrator of World Bank Project (Ghana Environmental Resource Management Project) o Computerized climatological records of the Ghana Meteorological Department (with Coopers and Lybrand Ghana) o Designed data entry forms, Trained data entry personnel o Performed quality control on data entered o Supervised data entry personnel o Managed the database

Ghana Meteorological Services Department (Africa) March 1988 Assistant Meteorologist to December o Managed personnel 1991 o Analyzed synoptic and upper air charts o Prepared route forecasts o Issued weather warning and forecast to general public o Briefed Pilots

MISCELLANEOUS WORK • Some Peer-Reviewing Work o Climatic Change o Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres) o Journal of Hydrometeorology o Bulletin of American Meteorological Society o Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology o International Journal of Geophysics o Hydrological Sciences Journal o Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies o Theoretical and Applied Climatology • External Examiner o Student: Kamoru Abiodun Lawal (Doctoral Thesis title: Understanding the Variability and Predictability of Seasonal Climates over West and Southern Africa using Climate Models) Deadline

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October 25, 2015. University of Cape Town, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, Republic of .

o Student: Sarah Emerald Osima (Doctoral Thesis title: Understanding a High Resolution Regional Climate Model’s Ability in Stimulating Tropical East Africa Climate Variability and Change) Deadline November 20, 2014. University of Cape Town, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, Republic of South Africa.

o Student: Mr. David Morrison (Master of Science Thesis title: The synoptic drivers of extreme rainfall in South Africa) Deadline August 2013. University of Cape Town, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, Republic of South Africa

o Student: Mr. Marshall Lison Mdoka (Doctoral Thesis title: The role of soil moisture on summer climate simulations over southern Africa) Deadline June 30, 2012. University of Cape Town, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, Republic of South Africa

o Student: Ms. Nana Ama Kum Brown (Doctoral Thesis title: Model Evaluation for Seasonal Forecasting over Southern Africa) Deadline May 18, 2012. University of Cape Town, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, Republic of South Africa

o Student: Mr. EO Gbobaniyi (Doctoral Thesis title: Transferability of Regional Climate Models over different climatic domains) Deadline November 19, 2010. University of Cape Town, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, Republic of South Africa.

• Reviewer/Evaluator o National Research Foundation of South Africa 2012 Rating Application: Evaluation and Rating of Dr. Shongwe, ME, Senior Scientist, South Africa Weather Service. September 2012. o National Research Foundation of South Africa: 2017, Five Year Assessment of Research Chair for the National Research Foundation (Climate Change), Prof. Bruce C. Hewitson. Deadline July 28, 2017

• Member of the International Council for Scientific Union Regional Office for November Africa (ICSU-ROA) 2015 to date

• Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Climate Research for September Development in Africa (CR4D) Initiative. Founded by ACPC/ClimDev-Africa 2015 to and AMCOMET/WMO date

• Member of World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission for July 2015 to Hydrology Group of Expert (OPACHES) date

• Member of the Advisory Board of the DfID/NERC/ESRC-funded UPGro February Programme Building the Understanding of Climate Variability into Planning of 2015 to Groundwater Supplies in Low Storage Aquifers in Africa (BRAVE) date

• Vice President of WMO/UK supported Climsoft Climate Database July 2014 to Management System, Steering Committee date

• Member of the World Meteorological Organization World Weather Research July 2014 to Programme Scientific Steering Committee (WWRP-SSC) date

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• Member of Advisory Board of the European FP7 project Dynamics-Aerosol- May 2014 to Chemistry-Cloud Interaction in West Africa (DACCIWA) Project date

• Member of the Journalists for Climate Change Awareness Group of African November University College of Communications, Accra, Ghana. Position held: Financial 2013 to Reviewer date

• Member of Steering Committee of the 2013 African Climate Conference in September Arusha, 2013

• Member of the World Climate Research Programme Task Force on Regional August Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) 2010 to May 2012

• Consultant to the West African Science Service Center on Climate and Adapted August land Use (WASCAL). Meteorologist helping with the preparatory phase of the 2010 to July main project which is to be launched in 2011 2011

• Member of International Council for Science (ICSU) Regional Office for Africa December Task Team on Global Environmental Change (including Climate Change and 2009 to Adaptation) in sub-Saharan Africa. date o Currently working on Impact of climate change on rainfall and water resources in sub-Saharan Africa: Sustainable adaptation to changes in rainfall patterns for food security in sub-Saharan Africa (2009/2010) • Co-chair of the World Meteorological Organization World Weather Research October THORPEX1-Africa Regional Committee 2009 to 2014 • Consultancy with the global change System for Analysis, Research & Training March – (START)- Institutional survey on institutions involved in water resources May 2009 management, hydrological and meteorological data collection, modelling/prediction, and adaptation to climate change

• Member of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Africa September Water Cycle Coordination Initiative (AWCCI) Task Team 2009 to date • Member of World Meteorological Organization Sand and Dust Storm Warning November Advisory and Assessment System (SDS-WAS) Project Steering Group (RSG) 2008 to for the regional node North Africa/Europe/Middle East date

• Africa-based consultant to Google.org's (www.google.org) Predict and Prevent January Initiative (USA). To help develop a strategy to advance the overall goal of 2008 to July improved weather, climate and geospatial data, modeling and information 2008 services in Africa. The Predict and Prevent Initiative seeks to identify "hot spots" and enable rapid response to emerging threats, such as infectious disease and climate risk

• International Water Management Institute (IWMI) November o Provides Meteorological Information 2007 to July o Contributes to climate variability and change projects 2010

• Member of the World Meteorological Organization World Weather Research November THORPEX1-Africa Regional Committee 2007 to 2014 • Co-chair World Meteorological Organization World Weather Research February THORPEX Africa Predictability and Dynamical Processes task team 2007 to

1 THORPEX is The Observation System Research and Predictability Experiment

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• Contributed to THORPEX Africa Science and Implementation Plan 2006 to 2014

• Member of the Scientific Committee of AMMA-Africa (African Monsoon February Multidisciplinary Analysis Project – Africa Branch) 2009 to date

RESEARCH PROJECTS • Involved in the US-based University Corporation for Atmospheric Research 2009 to (UCAR) Africa Initiative Google funded project on integrating weather and 2012 health data to manage meningitis in Ghana • Principal Investigator of the Volta Basin Water Resource Management in June 2009 Present and Future Climate Regimes. US National Science Foundation 2009 to June Funded Activity through the global change SysTem for Analysis, Research and 2010 Training (START)

Supervision of Bachelor of Science in Nautical Science students’ Project Work (Dissertation) at the Regional Maritime University • Completed June 2013 o Adamah Victor: Risk Analysis of maritime transportation along the coast of Ghana o Quarcoo Richmond K: The viability of marine plastic pollutants as a raw material (need to make corrections before final submission) • Completed June 2012 o Ayittah Desmond: The impact of plastic waste on the marine ecosystem (A case study of the territorial waters of Ghana) o Sackey Anthony D: The need to subscribe to the CLEANSEA NET. A radar satellite surveillance system for sea base oil spillage (A case of Ghana) • Completed June 2011 o Kenneth Kpabitey Matey: Outlining the causes and effects of algae bloom at Ghana’s West Coast • Completed June 2010 o Yaw Adjei Manu: A Maritime focus of climate change driven human migration o Bright Ofori: Dynamic Management of Operational Risk in Akosombo Port of Ghana • Completed June 2009 o Eshetu Gezagegan: The role of the shipping industry on Global Warming. Supervision of Master of Arts in Ports and Shipping Administration students’ thesis at the Regional Maritime University • Completed June 2014 o Dzigbodi Pearl Akpade: An analysis of maritime policy making in Ghana o Oneill Yaw Adomako: Marine pollution and its effects on marine life and people living in the coastal areas of Ghana (To finalize write-up) • Completed June 2012 o Praise-God Fynn Aikins: Challenges facing Ghana’s fishing Industry: Case study of and Winneba fishermen

Supervision of Doctoral Students in other Universities • Adeyeri Oluwafemi Ebenezer. PhD Candidate of the West African Science September Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) Graduate 2016 to School on Climate Change and Water Resources: Modeling the hydrological date

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response of Komadugu-Yobe area of the Lake Chad Basin to Climate Change

• Edward Naabil: PhD Candidate of the West African Science Service Centre on September Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) Graduate School on West 2013 to African Climate Systems: The sustainability of Tono Irrigation Scheme Under 2016 Climate Change, Using Hydrological Model and a climate version of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model. Modified Topic – Modeling the Climate and Hydrology of the Tono Basin in Ghana, West Africa • • Thompson Annor (Physics Department, Kwame Nkrumah University of August Science and Technology, Kumasi and a PhD candidate of the West African 2012 to Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) 2015 Graduate School on West African Climate Systems: Modeling Water Resource in the Black Volta catchment of the Volta Basin for present and future climate regimes • (defended thesis in February 2015) • Abraham Amankwah (Physics Department, University of Ghana, Legon): January Modeling air pollution transport and dispersion in an urban 2011 to environment 2014 (defended thesis in October, 2014)

• David Adukpo (Physics Department, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast): August Bowen Ratio Variability and its Use in Deducing other energy fluxes over a 2011 to Tropical Forest date

• David Buxton (Geography Department, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast): August Climate Variability and Cocoa Production in Ghana: A Case Study of Central 2011 to and Western Regions 2017

Supervision of other Masters Degree Students • Fatoumata Diallo. Masters degree student of the West African Science Service 2016 to date Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) Graduate School on Climate Change and Energy, University of Abdu Moumouni, Niger: Simulating the impact of climate change on the solar energy potential of West Africa.

• Joshua Ntajal Masters degree student of the West African Science Service Graduated Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) Graduate School 2015 on Climate Change and Human Security, University of Lome, . Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Geography: Flood Disaster Risk Mapping using Remote Sensing and GIS: a case study of Lower Mono River Basin in Togo • Adrajow Admasu Ferede: Determining Weather Driven Efficient Irrigation Schedule in Selected Rainfall Regimes of . Master of Science in Graduated Meteorology, School of Physical Science, Department of 2015 Meteorology, Supervisors Prof. N.J. Muthama, Prof. J. Ininda, Dr. Benjamin L. Lamptey

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS • The Nautical Institute June 2011 to Date • American Geophysical Union January 1999 to Date • American Meteorological Society January 1999 to

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Date • American Institute of Physics January 2005 to Date • Royal Meteorological Society (UK) January 1997 to December 1998 • Remote Sensing Society ((UK) January 1997 to December 1998 • Ghana Science Association (Ghana) July 1991 to Date • Ghana Association of Science Teachers (Ghana) 1985 to 1987 • Institute of Physics (UK) 1981 to 1983

TEACHING EXPERIENCE United States Teaching Assistant (Atmospheric Physics Laboratory) Spring 2001 and Spring 1999 Teaching Assistant (Applications of Computers in Meteorology) Fall 1998 Africa • Federal University of Technology, Minna WASCAL Master of Winter Technology Program in Climate Change and Adapted Land Use 2016 Course taught o Module on Statistical Meteorology o • University of Abdou Moumoni, Niamey Niger WASCAL Master of Science Winter Program in Climate Change and Energy 2014, Course taught Summer o Module on Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming 2016

• Federal University of Technology, Akure Nigeria WASCAL PhD Program in West Africa Climate Systems Course taught Summer o Module on Coupled Systems: Modeling 2013, Summer 2016 • University of Cape Coast, Ghana WASCAL PhD Program in Climate Spring 2013 Change and Agriculture Course taught o Module on Climate Change and Development (taught to Climate Change and Agriculture doctoral students from 7-11 February 2013)

• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana) Spring 2010 Senior Lecturer (Part-Time) Course taught o Synoptic Analysis and Nowcasting Methodist University College (Ghana) Spring Course taught 2011, o Data Analysis in Waste Stock Exchange Management Spring 2012 • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology 1st Summer July to School (Meteorology) August Course taught 2008 o Numerical Modeling

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• Ghana Meteorological Department Training School (Physics) August 1992 to 1996 • Accra Polytechnic (Physics) January 1989 to June 1994 • Regional Maritime Academy (Physics, Mathematics, Meteorology) January 1991 to January 1993 • Sunyani Secondary School (Physics) November 1984 to March 1988

Publications R.Y.K. Agyeman, T. Annor, B. Lamptey, E. Quansah, J. Agyekum and Sampson Tieku, 2017: Optimal physics parameterization scheme combination of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model for seasonal precipitation forecast over Ghana. Advances in Meteorology, Vol 2017, Article ID 7505321, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/7505321

E. Naabil, B.L. Lamptey, J. Arnault, A. Olufayo and H. Kuntsmann, 2017: Water resources management using the WRF-Hydro modelling system: Case study of the Tono dam in West Africa. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 12, 196-209.

Thompson A., B. L. Lamptey, S. Wagner, P. Oguntunde, D. Heinzeller, J. Arnault, H. Kuntsmann, 2017: High-resolution long-term WRF climate simulations over Volta Basin. Part1: Validation analysis for temperature and precipitation. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-017-2223-5

Douglas Parker, Abdou Kassimou, Bernard N. Orji, David Perry Osika, Ibrahim Hamza, Mariane Diop-Kane, Andreas Fink, Jim Galvin, Francoise Guichard, Benjamin Lamptey, Hama Hamidou, Roderick van der Linden, Robert Redl and Thierry Lebel, 2017: Chapter 4: Local Weather, 130- 174. Title of Book: Meteorology of Tropical West Africa. The Forecasters’ Handbook, 2017. Edited by Douglas J. Parker and Mariane Diop-Kane. Wiley Blackwell, West Sussex, UK. 468pp.

Sean Milton, Aida Diongue-Niang, Benjamin Lamptey, Caroline Bain and Cathryn Birch, 2017: Chapter 10: Numerical Weather Prediction over Africa, 380-422. Title of Book: Meteorology of Tropical West Africa. The Forecasters’ Handbook, 2017. Edited by Douglas J. Parker and Mariane Diop-Kane. Wiley Blackwell, West Sussex, UK. 468pp

Ntajal, J., Benjamin L. Lamptey, Ibrahim B. Mahamadou, Benjamin K. Nyarko, 2017: Flood Disaster Risk Mapping in the Lower Mono River Basin in Togo, West Africa. Int. Journ. Of Disaster Risk Reduction. Available online 28 April 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.03.015

B.L. Lamptey and A. D. Sackey, 2017: The need for satellite detection and monitoring of sea- based oil spillage: A case in Ghana. Regional Maritime University (Accra Ghana) Journal, Vol. 5, 62-74.

Ntajal, J., Lamptey, B.L., Sogbedji, J.M., 2016: Flood Vulnerability Mapping in the Lower Mono River Basin in Togo, West Africa. International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 7, Issue 10, October 2016 ISSN 2229-5518, 1553-1562

Ntajal, J., Lamptey, B.L., Sogbedji, J. M., Kpotivi, W-B. K., 2016: Rainfall trends and flood frequency analyses in the Lower Mono River Basin in Togo, West Africa. International Journal of Advance Research, Volume 4, Issue 10, October 2016, Online: ISSN 2320-9186

Lawal, K.A., A.A. Abatan, O. Angeil, E. Olaniyan, V.H. Olusoji, P. G. Oguntunde, B. Lamptey, B.J. Abiodun, H. Shiogama, M. F. Wehner and D.A. Stone, 2015: The Late Onset of the 2015

11 Lamptey wet season in Nigeria. BAMS S5-S11. DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0131.2

Nana Ama Browne Klutse, M.B. Sylla, I. Diallo, A. Sarr, A. Dosio,A. Diedhou, A. Kamga, B. Lamptey, A. Ali, E.O. Gbobaniyi, K. Owusu, C. Lennard, B. Hewitson, G. Nikulin, H-J. Panitz, M. Buchner, 2015: Daily characteristics of West African Summer Monsoon Precipitation in CORDEX simulations. Theor. Appli. Climatol., DOI 10.1007/s00704-014-1352-3, 18pp.

Hesse, C.A., Ofosu, J.B., & Lamptey, B.L. (2014). A regression Model for Predicting Road Traffic Fatalities in Ghana. Open Science Repository Mathematics, Online (open-access). Doi:107392/openaccess.23050497, 9pp.

Gbobaniyi, E., Sarr, A., Sylla, M. B., Diallo, I., Lennard, C., Dosio, A., Dhiédiou, A., Kamga, A., Klutse, N. A. B., Hewitson, B., Nikulin, G. and Lamptey, B. (2013), Climatology, annual cycle and interannual variability of precipitation and temperature in CORDEX simulations over West Africa. Int. J. Climatol., 34: 2241–2257. doi: 10.1002/joc.3834

Lamptey, B.L., 2010: An Analytical Framework for estimating the urban effect on climate. Int. J. Climatol., 30 (1), 72 -88.

Guichard, F., N. Asencio, C. Peugeot, O. Bock, J.-L. Redelsperger, X. Cui, M. Garvert, B. Lamptey, E. Orlandi, J. Sander, F. Fierli, M. A. Gaertner, S. Jones, J.-P. Lafore, A. Morse, M. Nuret, A. Boone, G. Balsamo, P. de Rosnay, B. Decharme, P. P. Harris and J.-C. Bergès, 2010 : An intercomparison of simulated rainfall and evapotranspiration associated with a mesoscale convective system over West Africa, Weather and Forecasting, 25, 37-60. doi : 10.1175/2009WAF2222250.1

Lamptey, B.L. R. E., Pandya, T. T. Warner, R. Boger, R. T. Bruintjes, P. A. Kucera, A. Laing, M. W. Moncrieff, M. K. Ramamurthy, T. C. Spangler and M. Wiengroff, 2009: The UCAR Africa Initiative. The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 90 (3), 299-303.

Lamptey, B.L., 2008: Comparison of gridded multi-satellite rainfall estimates with gridded gauge rainfall over West Africa. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 47(1), 185- 205.

Lamptey, B. L., E. J. Barron, and D. Pollard, 2005: Simulation of the relative impact of land cover and carbon dioxide to climate change from 1700 to 2100, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D20103, doi:10.1029/2005JD005916.

Lamptey, B.L., Barron, E.J., Pollard, D, 2005: Impacts of agriculture and urbanization on the climate of the northeastern United States. Global and Planetary Change, 49, 203-221.

Non Peer-Reviewed Publications Lamptey, B.L., G. Gezahegn, S. B. Awulachew, B.S. Nyenzi, S. J.E. Midgley, M. Kadi, 2011: Vulnerability and Climate Change hotspots in Africa – mapping based on existing knowledge. United Nations Economic Commission for Africa African Climate Policy Center Working Paper 2, November 2011 (http://www.uneca.org/acpc/index.php?Page=acpc_working_papers&Dir=about_acpc/policy_ documents), 43pp

Lamptey, B.L., 2009: Dams and Climate Change. Ghana Dams Dialogue Newsletter. Issue 4, 4- 5, December 2009 (http://ghanadamsdialogue.iwmi.org/newsletter.aspx).

WWRP/THORPEX African Implementation plan, 2008. WMO/TD No.1461; WWRP/THORPEX – No. 11

WWRP/THORPEX African Science Plan, 2008. WMO/TD No. 1460, WWRP/THORPEX – No. 10.

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