KNUST, Kumasi Ghana, West Africa
Position
Senior Lecturer, Co-Investigator and Fellow
Member of the Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) Model Evaluation Hub
Contact
Email: tommykak ‘at’ yahoo.com; tannor.cos ‘at’ knust.edu.gh
RG: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thompson_Annor
Summary
Dr. Thompson Annor is a Earth Climate Researcher and a University Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, whose research work is focused on climate modelling and its impacts on hydrology, land and agriculture. Evaluation of climate models has been one of the key areas in the climate modelling research he is doing and currently working on the LaunchPAD project over West Africa using the experiences that he obtained in climate modelling, Earth and environmental data analysis.
Bio
Lecturer in Physics, Meteorology and Climate Science, KNUST, Ghana. 2006-data.
Examination Officer for Meteorology and Climate Science Programme, KNUST. 2016-date
Regional Climate Modeling and Earth Data Analysis, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. 2013.
Coordinator for Meteorology and Climate Science Programme, KNUST. 2009-2011
Environmental Coordinator for Institute of Science and Technology for Africa (ISTA), KNUST. 2007-2008
Research Assistance, Alfred Wegner Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Climate System Group, Bremerhaven, Germany. 2003-2004.
PhD WASCAL-FUTA, Nigeria Meteorology and Climate Science 2015
MSc Bremen, Germany Environmental Physics 2004
BSc (hons) KNUST Physics 2001
Associations
Ghana Science Association
Ghana Institute of Physics
IMPALA
WASCAL
AMMA
Wikipedia
Research Interests
Impact of climate change on hydrology, effects of climate change on health, land surface parameters and climate modelling and evaluation.
Publications
Okafor, G., Annor, T., Odai, S., Agyekum, J. 2019. Volta basin precipitation and temperature climatology: evaluation of CORDEX-Africa regional climate model simulations. Theoretical and Applied Climatology; DOI: 10.1007/s00704-018-2746-4
Awotwi, A., Anornu, G.K., Quaye-Ballard, J., Annor, T., Forkuo, E.K., Harris, E., Agyekum, J., Terlabie, J.L. 2019. Water balance responses to land-use/land-cover changes in the Pra River Basin of Ghana, 1986–2025. Catena 182 (2019) 104129
Asilevi, P.J., Quansah, E., Amekudzi, L.K., Annor, T., Klutse, N.A.B. 2019. Modeling the spatial distribution of Global Solar Radiation (GSR) over Ghana using sunshine duration model. Scientific African , doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2019.e00094
Larbi, I., Hountondji, F.C.C., Annor, T., Agyare, W.A., Gathenya, J.M., Amuzu, J. 2018. Spatio-Temporal Trend Analysis of Rainfall and Temperature Extremes in the Vea Catchment, Ghana. Climate 2018, 6(4), 87; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli6040087
Awotwi, A., Anornu, G.K., Quaye-Ballard, J., Annor, T. 2018. Monitoring Land-use/Land-cover Changes due to Extensive Gold Mining, Urban Expansion and Agriculture in the Pra River Basin of Ghana for 1986-2025. Land Degradation & Development DOI:10.1002/ldr.3093
Agyekum, J., Annor, T., Lamptey, B., Quansah, E., Agyemang, R.Y.K. 2018. Regional Differences in Precipitation over the Volta Basin: An evaluation of some selected CMIP5 Global Climate Models. Advances in Meteorology https://www.hindawi.com/journals/amete/aip/4853681/
Annor, T., Lamptey, B., Wagner, S., Oguntunde, P., Arnault, J., Heinzeller, D., Kunstmann, H. 2017. High-resolution long-term WRF climate simulations over Volta Basin. Part 1: Validation analysis for temperature and precipitation. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 21 pages; doi: 10.1007/s00704-017-2223-5
Agyeman, R.Y.K., Annor, T., Lamptey, B., Quansah, E., Agyekum, J., Tieku, S.A. 2017. Optimal physics parameterization scheme combination of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model for seasonal precipitation simulation over Ghana. Advances in Meteorology doi.org/10.1155/2017/7505321
Awotwi, A., Anornu, G.K., Quaye-Ballard, J., Annor, T., Forkuo, E.K. 2017. Quantitative Impact Analysis of Climate and Anthropogenic Influences on Runoff in Alluvial Gold Mining Region of the Lower Pra River Basin of Ghana. Heliyon 3 doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2017. e00477
Baidu, M., Amekudzi, L.K., Aryee, J.N.A., Annor, T., 2017. Assessment of Long-Term Spatio-Temporal Rainfall Variability over Ghana usingWavelet Analysis. Climate Vol. 5 Issue 2 30 pages; doi:10.3390/cli5020030
Quansah, E., Katata, G., Mauder, M., Annor, T., Amekudzi, L.K., Bliefernicht, J., Heinzeller, D., Balogun, A.A., Kunstmann, H., 2017. Numerical Simulation of Surface Energy and Water Balances over a Semiarid Grassland Ecosystem in the West African Savanna. Advances in Meteorology Volume 2017, Article ID 6258180, 11 pages. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/6258180
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