The water footprint of cleaning PV farms in West Africa Start : Sep/Oct 2023 Keywords : Dust cycle, Solar energy, Water resources, Spatiotemporal analysis, Climate projections
Profile and skills required Master 2 or Engineer Diploma in Geography, Energy Systems, Earth or Climate sciences with a good knowledge of statistics and time series analysis. A good knowledge of the software R (or equivalent) and strong interest in developing scripts is also required. Ability to work with spatial (…)

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Prediction of atmospheric variables for solar energy management in West Africa Project Background
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has identified energy transition, water security and sustainable agriculture as the three main priorities for meeting the commitments made by West African States in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreements. The energy strategy is to accelerate access to electricity for hundreds of millions of Africans by (…)

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At the end of 2023, the NETWAT team has been strengthened by the arrival of Amélie Solbès as a doctoral student.
Amélie studied physics, first as a bachelor at the Technical University of Berlin, then as a master’s student at the University of Potsdam. During her studies, she specialised in atmospheric and climate physics. She also began her research training at the prestigious Alfred Wegener Institute, studying the influence of cloud and humidity profiles on radiation fluxes in the Arctic (…)

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In December 2023, Amy BANIGO joined the NETWAT consortium.
Amy obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in July 2015. Then, she obtained her Master in Hydraulic and Civil Engineering, Grenoble INP - ENSEᶟ in September 2023. She worked on several temporal datasets, including projects on climatology, flood propagation and mitigation, hydrological analysis, etc. Amy carried out her final year project at the IGE in the Hydro - Meteorology, (…)

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In May 2024, Adrien Deroubaix joined the NETWAT consortium.
Adrien obtained his PhD from the University of Paris 6 at LOCEAN in 2013 on the impact of desert dust and climate on meningitis epidemics in the Sahel.
He then turned his attention to air quality modelling, in particular desert dust, by joining the LMD and then the GFDL (Princeton, USA).
He joined MPI-meteorology (Hamburg, Germany) in 2018 to work on air quality modelling in Brazil, focusing on the Sao Paulo megacity.
In 2020, (…)

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