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Thompson Annor
Department of Meteorology and Climate ScienceLife SciencesPhysical Sciences

Thompson Annor

50 Publications20 Research Themes33 Open Access
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Research Overview & Focus

A researcher has made significant contributions to advancing hydrological understanding by integrating satellite data with land use/land cover changes, particularly in mining areas. Through a series of papers spanning themes such as Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (e.g., water balance responses and precipitation projections), the study explores the impacts of mining on water systems across West Africa. The research highlights how satellite imagery enhances our ability to monitor land-use changes and their effects on hydrological processes, particularly in resource-constrained environments like the Pra River Basin. By analyzing historical data and projecting future trends, the work provides critical insights into climate change impacts, agricultural resilience, and sustainable practices. Through its comprehensive approach, the research synthesizes knowledge across physics, environment, and policy to inform decisions for optimizing water resources and promoting eco-innovation in West Africa.

Faculty Biography

He is a climate scientist with expertism in climate modelling and evaluation. He has vast knowledge in environmental data analysis with the application of several Earth Data Analysis Tools such as Climate Data Operator (CDO), NCAR Command Language (NCL), NCAR Command Operator (NCO) etc. He has also been involved in high level international collaboration programs such as the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (AMMA), West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adopted Land Use (WASCAL), Future Climate For Africa - Improving Model Processes for African Climate (FCFA-IMPALA), FCFA Model Evaluation Hub for Africa Project (LaunchPAD). He is also a Wikipidia Climate Science for Africa editor.

Key Research Themes (20)
Life Sciences

African Botany and Ecology Studies

Life Sciences

Agricultural risk and resilience

Physical Sciences

Air Quality and Health Impacts

Physical Sciences

Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation

Physical Sciences

Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Life Sciences

Banana Cultivation and Research

Physical Sciences

Climate variability and models

Physical Sciences

Energy and Environment Impacts

Physical Sciences

Energy Load and Power Forecasting

Physical Sciences

Hydrology and Drought Analysis

Physical Sciences

Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Physical Sciences

Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Physical Sciences

Mining and Resource Management

Physical Sciences

nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions

Physical Sciences

Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Physical Sciences

Precipitation Measurement and Analysis

Physical Sciences

Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Life Sciences

Smart Agriculture and AI

Physical Sciences

Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics

Physical Sciences

Water resources management and optimization

Publications (50)

Future changes in extreme precipitation events over the Volta basin under medium and high emission scenarios

2025DOI: 10.1007/s00382-025-07957-5

Spatiotemporal Assessment of PM2.5 in Senior High Schools in Kumasi, Ghana using Low-Cost Sensors

Open Access
2025DOI: 10.1007/s44408-025-00066-2

A half century dataset on ETCCDI annual precipitation indices for the Northern savanna agro-ecological zone (Ghana) and the entire country

Open Access
2025Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.1007/s44248-025-00037-3

Spatiotemporal Assessment of PM\textsubscript{2.5} inSenior High Schools in Kumasi, Ghana Using Low-Cost Sensors

Open Access
2025Astronomical Observations and InstrumentationDOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6941594/v1

Image dataset of Taro Leaf Blight disease collected from the West African Sub-Region

Open Access
2025Banana Cultivation and ResearchDOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2025.111869

Trends and Spatial Patterns of Sorghum and Millet Production in the Northern Savannah Agro-climatic Zone of Ghana; A statistical Appraisal

Open Access
2025Agricultural risk and resilienceDOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5508540/v1

Spatio-Temporal Assessment of Dry Spells within the White Volta Basin of Ghana

Open Access
2025Plant Water Relations and Carbon DynamicsDOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5314570

Linkages between Gulf of Guinea Sea Surface Temperatures and West Africa Seasonal Rainfall Extreme Events: Evaluation of Cmip6 Gcms

Open Access
2025Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5337692

A Half Century Dataset on ETCCDI Annual Precipitation Indices for the Northern Savanna Agro-ecological Zone (Ghana) and the entire Country

Open Access
2024Energy Load and Power ForecastingDOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5510707/v1

Early detection of the Taro Leaf Blight disease in the West African sub-region using deep image classification models

Open Access
2024Smart Agriculture and AIDOI: 10.1016/j.atech.2024.100636

Regional climate response to land cover change in tropical West Africa: a numerical sensitivity experiment with ESA land cover data and advanced WRF-Hydro

Open Access
2024Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.3389/frwa.2024.1372333

Relationships Between Meteorological Parameters and PM2.5 in Accra

2024Air Quality and Health ImpactsDOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-53525-3_16

Heat band, rain band and heat low migration: process-based evaluation of some CMIP6 GCMs over West Africa

Open Access
2023Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.1007/s00382-023-06930-4

Gridded daily rainfall data for Ghana for the period 1960 - 2015: Approach and validation process

Open Access
2023Hydrology and Drought AnalysisDOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109115

Long-term spatio-temporal variability and change in rainfall over Ghana (1960–2015)

Open Access
2023Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01588

Interactions between Climate and Land Cover Change over West Africa

Open Access
2023Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.3390/land12020355

A Half Century Dataset on Etccdi Annual Precipitation Indices for the Northern Savanna Agro-Ecological Zone (Ghana) and the Entire Country

Open Access
2023Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4457676

Extreme temperature indices over the Volta Basin: CMIP6 model evaluation

2022Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.1007/s00382-022-06503-x

Tono basin climate modeling, the potential advantage of fully coupled WRF/WRF-Hydro modeling System

2022Hydrology and Watershed Management StudiesDOI: 10.1007/s40808-022-01574-5

How do coupled models represent the African Easterly Jets and their associated dynamics over Central Africa during the September–November rainy season?

Open Access
2022Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.1007/s00382-022-06467-y

Relationship between climate and land use land cover change over West Africa

Open Access
2022Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1987298/v1

Extreme precipitation indices over the Volta Basin: CMIP6 model evaluation

Open Access
2022Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2022.e01181

Seasonal Variation Analysis of Air Pollutants in Accra-Ghana

2022Energy and Environment ImpactsDOI: 10.1002/essoar.10510668.1

Assessment of the unified model in reproducing West African precipitation and temperature climatology

2022Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.1007/s00704-022-03973-1

Rainfall and temperature projections and the implications on streamflow and evapotranspiration in the near future at the Tano River Basin of Ghana

Open Access
2021Hydrology and Watershed Management StudiesDOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2021.e01071

Towards a historical precipitation database for West Africa: Overview, quality control and harmonization

Open Access
2021Precipitation Measurement and AnalysisDOI: 10.1002/joc.7467

Impact of post- reclamation of soil by large-scale, small-scale and illegal mining on water balance components and sediment yield: Pra River Basin case study

2021Mining and Resource ManagementDOI: 10.1016/j.still.2021.105026

Climate change impact on streamflow in a tropical basin of Ghana, West Africa

Open Access
2021Hydrology and Watershed Management StudiesDOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100805

Climate Change Impact on Water Resources; The case of Tono Irrigation Dam in Ghana

Open Access
2020Water resources management and optimizationDOI: 10.11648/j.hyd.20200804.12

Land Use Landcover Change Monitoring and Projection in the Dano Catchment, Southwest Burkina Faso

Open Access
2019African Botany and Ecology StudiesDOI: 10.23953/cloud.ijarsg.445

Water balance responses to land-use/land-cover changes in the Pra River Basin of Ghana, 1986–2025

2019Hydrology and Watershed Management StudiesDOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2019.104129

Modeling the spatial distribution of Global Solar Radiation (GSR) over Ghana using the Ångström-Prescott sunshine duration model

Open Access
2019Solar Radiation and PhotovoltaicsDOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2019.e00094

Volta basin precipitation and temperature climatology: evaluation of CORDEX-Africa regional climate model simulations

2019Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.1007/s00704-018-2746-4

Modeling the spatial distribution of Global Solar Radiation (GSR) over Ghana using the ÅngströmPrescott sunshine duration model

Open Access
2019Solar Radiation and PhotovoltaicsDOI: 10.14303/jrest.2019.028

Spatio-Temporal Trend Analysis of Rainfall and Temperature Extremes in the Vea Catchment, Ghana

Open Access
2018Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.3390/cli6040087

Evaluation of CMIP5 Global Climate Models over the Volta Basin: Precipitation

Open Access
2018Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.1155/2018/4853681

Monitoring land use and land cover changes due to extensive gold mining, urban expansion, and agriculture in the Pra River Basin of Ghana, 1986–2025

2018Land Use and Ecosystem ServicesDOI: 10.1002/ldr.3093

Analysis of climate and anthropogenic impacts on runoff in the Lower Pra River Basin of Ghana

Open Access
2017Hydrology and Watershed Management StudiesDOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00477

High-resolution long-term WRF climate simulations over Volta Basin. Part 1: validation analysis for temperature and precipitation

2017Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.1007/s00704-017-2223-5

Assessment of Long-Term Spatio-Temporal Rainfall Variability over Ghana using Wavelet Analysis

Open Access
2017Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.3390/cli5020030

A precipitation database of station-based daily and monthly measurements for West Africa: Overview, quality control and harmonization

Open Access
2017Precipitation Measurement and AnalysisDOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.25647.33448

Numerical Simulation of Surface Energy and Water Balances over a Semiarid Grassland Ecosystem in the West African Savanna

Open Access
2017Plant Water Relations and Carbon DynamicsDOI: 10.1155/2017/6258180

Optimal Physics Parameterization Scheme Combination of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model for Seasonal Precipitation Simulation over Ghana

Open Access
2017Climate variability and modelsDOI: 10.1155/2017/7505321

The impact of land use on the net ecosystem CO2 exchanges in the West African Sudanian Savannas

2016Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Performance analysis of spatial interpolation techniques for daily precipitation amount and further precipitation indices for a data sparse region

2014Precipitation Measurement and Analysis

A mechanism for photochemical reactions in the quasi-liquid layer of snow crystals in polar regions

Open Access
2007nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions

Investigation of the photochemical decomposition of nitrate, hydrogen peroxide, and formaldehyde in artificial snow

2005Atmospheric chemistry and aerosolsDOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2005.09.001

Investigation of the photolysis reactions of nitrate, hydrogen peroxide, and formaldehyde in artificial snow

2004Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Photochemical reactions of trace compounds in snow

2004Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Investigation of the photochemical decomposition of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and formaldehyde (HCHO) in artificial snow

2004Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
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DepartmentDepartment of Meteorology and Climate Science
Total Publications50
Research Themes20
Open Access Papers33

Department of Meteorology and Climate Science

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

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