Dear Colleagues,

Understanding the characteristics of the water cycle (or hydrological cycle) and processes are pivotal for improving our knowledge on the climate system. This continuous exercise is particularly important regarding essential climate variables such as precipitation.

In recent decades, the African continent has received more attention and priority regarding climate change studies. This awareness has prompted more interest in the continent, with substantial achievements regarding measuring and modelling the African precipitation and the water cycle. These recent achievements also contributed to the surge in African climate databases from multiple sources (i.e., remotely sensed, reanalysis, and modelled datasets) due to the relatively uneven and scarce ground-measurement networks. Such datasets have been instrumental for improving precipitation science in Africa. However, these datasets and their acquisition techniques are consistently being refined and improved to meet both research and application demands.

This Special Issue is focused on broadly defined climatology. We would like to invite research papers presenting innovative approaches for characterizing precipitation and the water cycle (or hydrological cycle) in Africa.

Submissions may be related to the use of interdisciplinary scientific studies devoted (but not limited) to a wide range of topic evaluation and enhancement tools; data independency and multisource estimate uncertainties in the tropics are especially welcome.

Dr. Isaac Nooni
Dr. Daniel Fiifi Tawia Hagan
Dr. William Amponsah
Dr. Nana Agyemang Prempeh
Dr. Benjamin Lamptey
Guest Editors