Research fields

• Regional Climate and Hydrological modeling,
• Dynamical Malaria modeling
• Long-term climate projections  (Dynamical Downscaling, Multivariate Bias Correction)
• Climate and hydrology extreme events studies
• Regional climate variability and anthropogenic climate change impact on agriculture and health
• Epidemiology
• public Health and Vector Bornes Desease
• Risk modelling

Research projects

• DFG: Climate Change and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa (https://www.cch-africa.de)
• UPSCALERS: Upscaling Site-Specific Climate-smart Agriculture and Land use practices to Enhance Regional production Systems in West Africa
• WASCAL: West African Science Service Center on Climate and Adapted Land Use

Models and tools

• CCLM, Noah-MP, WRF-Noah-MP-Hydro
• QGIS, NCL, R, PYTHON, MATLAB, shell scripting, CDO, NCO

Selected publications

Dieng, D., Tompkins, A., Joel, A., Sié, A., Stephan, M., Fersch, B., Laux, P., Schwarz, M., Zabré, P., Munga, S., Khagayi, S., Diouf, I and   Kunstmann, H. (2024). Process-based Atmosphere-Hydrology-Malaria Modeling: Performance for Spatio-temporal Malaria Transmission Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR034975

Olschewski, P., Dieng, D., Moutahir, H., Böker, B., Haas, E., Kunstmann, H., and Laux, P. (2024). Amplified potential for vegetation stress under climate-change-induced intensifying compound extreme events in the Greater Mediterranean Region, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 1099–1134, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-1099-2024.

Srivastava, A.K., Rahimi, J., Alsafadi, K., Vianna, M., Enders, A., Zheng, W., Demircan, A., Dieng, D., Salack, S., Faye, B., Singh, M., Ewert, F., Gaiser, T. (2023). Dynamic Modelling of Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems: A Case Study of Climate Change Impacts in sub-Saharan Africa. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3793846/v1.

Adeyeri, O. E., Zhou, W., Laux, P., Wang, X., Dieng, D., Widana, L.A.E., Usman, M. (2023). Land use and land cover dynamics: Implications for thermal stress and energy demands. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.113274.

Salack, S., Sanfo, S., Sidibe, M., Daku, E.K., Camara, I., Dieng, D., Hien, K., Torou, B.M.; Ogunjobi, K.O., Khalil, S.K., Sangare, S.B, et al. (2022). Low-cost adaptation options to support green growth in agriculture, water resources, and coastal zones. Scientific reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22331-9.

Camara, I., Lejeune, Q., Defrance, D., Dieng, D., Sakho, I., Sane, Y., Noblet, M., Diakhaté, M., Sultan, B., Sall, S.M. et al (2022). Change in Climate Indices Using Bias-Adjusted CMIP5 Models: The Case Study of the Fatick Region, Senegal. American Journal for Climate change. 10.4236/ajcc.2022.114015 

Dieng, D., Cannon, A. J., Laux, P., Hald, C., Adeyeri, O., Rahimi, J., et al. (2022). Multivariate bias-correction of high-resolution regional climate change simulations for West Africa: Performance and climate change implications. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2021JD034836. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD034836

Laux, P., Dieng, D., Portele, T.C., Wei, J., Shang, S., Zhang, Z., Arnault, J., Lorenz, C., Kunstmann, H. (2021): A high-resolution regional climate simulation physics ensemble for Sub-Saharan Africa, Frontiers in Earth Science, section Interdisciplinary Climate Studies.

Laux, P., Rötter, R. P., Webber, H., Dieng, D., Rahimi, R., Wei, J., . . . Kunstmann, K. (2021). To bias correct or not to bias correct? An agricultural impact modelers’? Perspective on regional climate model data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 304–305, 108406.

Quenum, G.M.L.D., Klutse, N.A.B., Dieng, D. et al. (2019): Identification of Potential Drought Areas in West Africa Under Climate Change and Variability. Earth Syst Environ 3, 429–444. doi:10.1007/s41748-019-00133-w

Sow, M.; Diakhaté, M.; Guichard, F.; Dieng, D.; Gaye, A.T.  (2019): Uncertainties in the Annual Cycle of Rainfall Characteristics over West Africa in CMIP5 Models. Preprints 2019, 2019070007, doi:10.20944/preprints201907.0007.v2

Dieng, D., Laux, P., Smiatek, G., Bliefernicht, J., Heinzeller, D., Kunstmann, H., Sarr, A., Gaye, A.T., (2018): Performance analysis and projected changes of agro-climatological indices across West Africa based on high-resolution regional climate model simulations, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 10.1029/2018JD028536

Heinzeller, D., Dieng, D., Smiatek, D., Olusegun, C., Klein, C., Hamann, I., Salack, S., and Kunstmann, H. (2018): The WASCAL high-resolution regional climate simulation ensemble for West Africa: concept, dissemination, assessment, Earth System Science Data, doi: 10.1594/PANGAEA.880512

Dieng, D., Smiatek, G., Bliefernicht, J., Heinzeller, D., Sarr, A., Gaye, A. T., and Kunstmann, H. (2017): Evaluation of the COSMO-CLM high-resolution climate simulations over West Africa, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122, 1437–1455, doi: 10.1002/2016JD025457