Misiani M Zachary

Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology · School of Atmospheric Science

This review article provides an analysis of cyclic variations in East Africa that indicate a catastrophic famine event. Using historical and contemporary data, we examine the cycles of drought and famine that have occurred in the region over the past centuries. Our analysis reveals that the frequency and severity of droughts and famines in East Afr...

We have observed that the drought in Kenya›s ASAL regions had a detrimental effect on the most vulnerable communities, particularly the pastoralists and small-scale farmers whose livelihoods are mostly dependent on the seasons of rainfall. This is due to the fact that Kenya had five consecutive rainy seasons that have been unsuccessful, beginning i...

Climate change is a significant and emerging threat to public health and community social cohesion and may get worse as planet warms, oceans expand and the sea level rises. Extreme weather events such as floods and droughts have become more frequent and intense influencing the way societies must look at protecting vulnerable populations such as tho...

Climate vulnerability and change can have significant impacts on regional, national, and local development efforts. In order to reduce these impacts and promote climate-resilient development, decision and development practitioners need to understand the climate vulnerabilities of the people, sectors, and community they are working with. Climate vul...

Did you know that in the month of January, Kenya usually experiences generally sunny and dry weather conditions?

The October 10, 2020 is also a day worth remembering, because on this day, the Mentsunmo Climate Action SDG Laboratory was officially established and participated in the presentation of 24 Hours of Reality: Countdown to the Future. Mentsunmo, which means "Goddess Peak", is a sacred mountain. This snowy mountain is more than 6,000 metersabove sea l...

Today, traditional media is still a significant part of disseminating weather and climate information, still they have not been able to reach out to all users of the target audience alone. On the other hand, social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, etc. are used as a tool of communicating weather and climate information...

Land-use and land-cover changes directly impact biological diversity, and may cause land degradation by altering ecosystem services and livelihood support systems, thereby disrupting the socio-cultural practices and institutions associated with managing those biophysical systems. The most important is the gradual disappearance of human's traditiona...

Climate change is affecting the IPLCs (Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities) around the world, including ethnic minorities in China, especially from agriculture, animal husbandry, hunting and gathering, which are their main source of livelihoods. At the same time, IPLCs have rich traditional knowledge related to climate and its disasters, espec...

Climate change is having an increasing impact on forest resources in the East Himalaya region, it also poses a threat and challenge to the traditional livelihood of the local Tibetan people, because their livelihoods depend heavily on forest resources ➢ Local Tibetans have formed the traditional knowledge of forest resource management through the a...

This project aims to develop a community-based biodiversity conservation plan based on the traditional ecological knowledge in the Eastern Tibetan Himalayas of North-West Yunnan Province, China, in order to promotion in effectively and sustainable responding to the impacts of Climate Change on the biodiversity.

Understanding & identifying the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and traditional ecological knowledge of Tibetan communities in the Eastern Himalayan mountains. Developing the community-based biodiversity conservation plan, supporting the biodiversity conservation through the traditional ecological knowledge of local Tibetan communities in...

The origins and pathways of atmospheric aerosols in Kenya are examined in Nairobi for the three years (2015-2017) using HYSPLIT model and meteorological data. Aerosol concentrations in Kenya depended on the frequency of the air mass from the northeastern Asian Continent and southeastern Madagascar Island. There was a direct correlation of more poll...

Climate change has largely influenced the biodiversity in the world, as the biodiversity hotspots areas are often also rich in cultural diversity, the local peoples have rich traditional knowledge associated to biodiversity, and these knowledge also provide alternative information about climate variability and climate change based on the experience...

Agro-pastoralism is important to Tibetan people of Eastern Himalayas as a source of livelihood, biodiversity resource management and culture. In recent years, the impact of climate change has become more obvious, threatening livelihoods and sustainable development. Considering the importance of agro-pastoralism in this context, this paper presents...

The identification and classification of both natural and anthropogenic atmospheric aerosols originating from different region is becoming very useful when dealing with effect of air quality. Different areas may encounter the problem of dust storm events which is harmfully to the environment and human health. This thesis works focused mainly on the...

This paper evaluates the effects of long-range transport patterns of air trajectories arriving at a rural ground based station, ICIPE Mbita 1125 meters above mean sea level. Mass concentration data of fine mode AOD, coarse mode AOD and fine mode fraction AOD were combined with back-trajectory cluster analysis. The Potential Source Contribution Func...

The air mass back-trajectory clustering analysis was combined with Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) of fine mode, coarse mode and fine mode fraction in order to evaluate the long-range effects of transportation patterns of trajecto-ries for the ground based station at ICIPE Mbita which is located on longitude and latitude of 34.2˚E, 0.417˚S respectively...