University of Yaounde 1, Yaounde Cameroon. Central Africa.
Position
Senior Lecturer, Co-Investigator
Member of the Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) Model Evaluation Hub
Contact
Email: wpokam ‘at’ yahoo.fr
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wilfried_Pokam2
Summary
Dr. Pokam Mba Wilfried is a Earth Climate Researcher and a University Lecturer at the Higher Teacher training College of the University of Yaounde 1, Yaounde, Cameroon, whose research work is focused on improve understanding of the functioning of climate system over Africa, with particular interest on Central Africa. Research cover climate dynamics and climate modelling. Coordinating 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 Central Africa using the experiences that he obtained in climate modelling, Earth and environmental data analysis.
Bio
Lecturer in Physics and Climate Science, UY1, Cameroon. 2011-date.
Research fellow for the UK DFID and NERC Future climate For Africa (FCFA) programme (2015-date);
Member of the Climate Research for Development in Africa (CR4D) Scientific Advisory Committee,
UNECA (2015-date)
Part time lecturer in atmospheric Physics, National Advanced school of Engineering, University of
Yaounde 1(2017-2018)
Member of Central Africa of CORDEX Africa regional circulation models evaluation group (2015-date)
PhD atmospheric physics, University of Yaounde 1 2015
MSc atmospheric physics, University of Yaounde 1 2004
BSc University of Yaounde 1 Physics 2001
Associations
IMPALA
UMFULA
CORDEX
CR4D
Research Interests
Investigation of mechanisms driving climate variability and change over Central Africa, atmospheric dynamics and climate modelling and evaluation.
Publications
Kuete, G., Pokam Mba, W. & Washington, R. African Easterly Jet South (2019) control, maintenance mechanisms and link with Southern subtropical waves. Clim Dyn doi:10.1007/s00382-019-05072-w
Gabriel Fotso‐Kamga, Thierry C. Fotso‐Nguemo, Ismaila Diallo, Zéphirin D. Yepdo, Wilfried M. Pokam, Derbetini A. Vondou, and André Lenouo (2019) An evaluation of COSMO‐CLM regional climate model in simulating precipitation over Central Africa. Int Journal of Clim doi.org/10.1002/joc.6372
Guenang, G.M., Komkoua, M.A.J., Pokam, M.W. et al. (2019) Sensitivity of SPI to Distribution Functions and Correlation Between its Values at Different Time Scales in Central Africa. Earth Syst Environ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-019-00102-3
Tamoffo AT, Vondou DA, Pokam WM, Haensler A, Yepdo ZD, Fotso-Nguemo TC, Tchotchou LAD, Nouayou R (2019) Daily characteristics of central African rainfall in the REMO model. Theor Appl Climatol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-018-2745-5
Tamoffo Tchio, A., Moufouma-Okia W., Dosio A., James R., Pokam Wilfried, et al. (2019) Process-oriented assessment of RCA4 regional climate model projections over the Congo Basin under 1.5 °C and 2°C global warming levels: influence of regional moisture fluxes. Climate Dynamics. 10.1007/s00382-019-04751-y.
Pokam Mba W., Georges-Noel T. L.,Wilfran Moufouma-Okia, Jean-Pierre B., Rachel J., Derbetini A.V., Andreas H., Thierry C F-N., Guy Merlin G, Angennes Lucie D. T., Pierre H K-T, Ridrick R. T., Grigory N., Christopher J. L. and Alessandro D. (2018) Consequences of 1.50 C and 20 C global warming levels for temperature and precipitation changes over Central Africa. Environ. Res. Lett. in press https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aab048
James, R., Washington, R., Abiodun, B., Kay, G., Mutemi, J., Pokam, W., Hart, N., Artan, G. and Senior, C. (2017) Evaluating climate models with an African lens. American Meteorological Society. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0090.1
Thierry C. Fotso-N., Derbetini A. V., Wilfried M. Pokam, et al. (2017) On the added value of the regional climate model REMO in the assessment of climate change signal over Central Africa, Climate Dynamic, doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3547-7.
Creese, A. & Pokam, W. (2016). Central Africa: Understanding the Regional Climate System. Future Climate for Africa factsheet
Wilfried, Pokam Mba, Caroline L. Bain, Robin S. Chadwick, Richard Graham, Denis Jean Sonwa, Francois Mkankam Kamga (2014) Identification of Processes Driving Low-Level Westerlies in West Equatorial Africa. Journal of Climate, 27, 4245–4262.
Denis J. Sonwa, Paul Scholte, Wilfried Pokam, et al. (2014) Climate change and adaptation in Central Africa: past, scenarios and options for the future, in de Wasseige C., Flynn J., Louppe D., Hiol Hiol F., Mayaux Ph (ed.) , The Forests of the Congo Basin – State of the Forest 2013. Weyrich. Belgium. 328 p
Bouka Biona C, Pokam WM et al. (2014) “ Une approche commune pour l’élaboration des projections de changement climatique régional : contraintes et opportunités en Afrique centrale”, in Denis Jean Sonwa and Johnson Ndi Nkem (ed.), Les forêts du Bassin du Congo et adaptation aux changements climatiques, Paris, Karthala: 59-82
Washington R, James R, Pearce H, Pokam WM, Moufouma-Okia W. (2013) Congo Basin rainfall climatology: can we believe the climate models? Phil Trans R Soc B 368: 20120296.
Pokam M. W., L. A. T. Djiotang, F. K. Mkankam. 2012: Atmospheric water vapor transport and recycling in Equatorial Central Africa through NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data, Climate Dynamics, 38(9-10), 1715-1729.
LaunchPAD 