About this Environmental Science article

Global Warming Status in the African Continent: Sources, Challenges, Policies, and Future Direction by Heba Bedair; Mubaraka S. Alghariani; Esraa Omar; Quadri Agbolade Anibaba; Michael Remon; Charné Bornman; Samuel Kuria Kiboi; Hadeer Abdulrahman Rady; Abdul-Moomin Ansong Salifu; Soumya Ghosh; Reginald Tang Guuroh; Lassina Sanou; Hassan M. Alzain is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

Africa is the second largest continent after Asia, having a larger than 30 million km 2 area. Doubtlessly, one of the biggest ecological and societal problems of the twenty-first century is climate change. Since the early 1970s, it has been clear that Africa is already experiencing the effects of climate change, and it has given rise to a wide range of new and unusual phenomena, such as rising temperatures, poor agricultural output, extreme different weather scenarios, and the spread of disease, among other things. Therefore, the current review aims at screening the impact of climate change on agricultural sector, human health and food security in Africa compared to the other continents, evaluating the change projections in future and highlighting the role of African leaders in mitigating and adapting to these effects. Artificial intelligence, remote sensing, and high-tech algorithms were applied to analyze these effects. Historical data were downloaded in near real-time from January 2009 to the present from the FAO Water Productivity Open-access portal WaPOR and Terra Climate datasets on Earth Engine platform. Assessment process was performed using Google Earth Engine, whereas fut

Author

Heba Bedair; Mubaraka S. Alghariani; Esraa Omar; Quadri Agbolade Anibaba; Michael Remon; Charné Bornman; Samuel Kuria Kiboi; Hadeer Abdulrahman Rady; Abdul-Moomin Ansong Salifu; Soumya Ghosh; Reginald Tang Guuroh; Lassina Sanou; Hassan M. Alzain

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)