Salomon Salumu Zahera

• MSC
• PhD Student at Polytechnique Montréal

Information regarding the spatial extent and timing of flooding in the world's major wetlands is important to a wide range of research questions including global methane models, water management, and biodiversity assessments. The Pool Malebo is one of the 33 wetlands Ramsar's priority areas in the DRC, and is subject to substantial development and...

This study assesses the potential impact of climate change on hydropower generation, focusing on the Grand Inga hydropower project on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Utilizing a multi-input approach with a conceptual HEC-HMS hydrologic model, this research incorporates a new bias-corrected high-resolution daily downscaled datas...

The Congo River Basin is the second-largest watershed globally, flowing through nine countries before reaching the Atlantic Ocean. The Kasai River Basin (KARB), containing about one-fourth of Congo’s freshwater resources, plays a strategic role in sustaining navigation, food production, and hydroelectricity generation in Central Africa. This study...

Results suggest that the Grand Inga project will be resilient to negative climate impacts during its initial phases (1-5). The system demonstrates security and insensitivity to adverse changes, both for existing (Phase 1-2) and planned (Phase 3-5) hydropower components. The study indicates that climate change effects become apparent only in later p...

The Congo River Basin is the second-largest watershed globally, flowing through nine countries before reaching the Atlantic Ocean. The Kasai River Basin (KARB), containing about one-fourth of Congo’s freshwater resources, plays a strategic role in sustaining navigation, food production, and hydroelectricity generation in Central Africa. A multi-mod...

Rating curves are used to estimate the discharge in rivers, especially in the Congo River. However, the rating curves used for the Congo River, established since 1959, are inadequate because of the changes recurrently occurring in the morphology of the river. The streamflow processes are complex and highly nonlinear and are a result of combination...

The electricity deficit in Africa causes hundreds of thousands of deaths each year, interferes with the functioning of hospitals and emergency services; compromises educational goals and increases the cost of doing business. This deficit can be filled by the immense hydroelectric potential, a large part of which, estimated at more than 40,000 MW i...

Les modèles hydrologiques constituent des outils d’une importance capitale dans la gestion des ressources en eau. Ils permettent de transformer des séries décrivant le climat sur un bassin versant (typiquement des séries de précipitations et de températures) en séries de débits simulés. Cependant, la performance de ces modèles est grandement tribut...

Renewable energy is environmental friendly and constitutes a sustainable alternative for power supply. The power sector in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) faces major challenges, including low generation capacity, inefficient institutions, and low electricity access. The DRC total hydropower potential over of 100 Gigawatts (GW) the third largest...

Climate change and its effects on the hydrologic regime of the Congo River Basin can impact several vital sectors in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) including hydropower generation. Given the important role of hydropower in peak electricity management, DRC is actively pursuing development of more hydropower resources by construction of large dam...

Due climatic variability and anthropogenic changes, floods have been raised in several regions worldwide. The resulting impact from floods is often harmful. This can be applied to DR. Congo, the country which is known by wet climatic conditions, and it became lately a typical region for such natural hazard. Hence, floods are observed as a yearly di...

The importance of evapotranspiration (ET), in the hydrological cycle, makes its quantification necessary for agricultural production planning and water resources management in general. Moreover, ET plays a key role in the estimation of the soil water balance, either for the detection of water stress conditions, their use as input variable in crop y...

Le Bassin du fleuve Congo est le deuxième plus grand bassin fluvial du monde, après celui de l'Amazone. Bien que le fleuve joue un rôle capital pour les populations et l’économie des 10 pays sur lesquels son bassin versant s’étant il n’existe que très peu de données hydrométéorologiques les concernant. Plusieurs études ont déjà utilisé des modèles...

A coupled one-dimensional (1D)/two-dimensional (2D) hydrodynamic modelling of the Inner Niger Delta wetlands (Mali) was carried out using LISFLOOD-FP. The inundation model was built using both field measurements and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (STRM) digital elevation model. The model was then calibrated against the 2001 flood data and val...

1D/2D hydrodynamic assessment of the Pool Malebo in the lower reaches of the Congo River has been carried out using LISFLOOD-FP model based on remotely sensed observations that either directly record water surface elevations using satellite radar altimetry or infer stage and discharge from ground station and remotely sensed data. Here we quantify t...