Analysis of extreme climatic phenomena in the South-east of Niger

Abstract

The climate of the Department of Goure and Maine Soroa(Southeast of Niger) is of the saharo-sahelian’s type. Extreme climatic events are isolated weather phenomena, which coincide in space and time to affect agricultural production, livestock breeding and natural resource stocks. In order to qualify and quantify regionally climate extremes, the statistical tool used is the extreme value distribution according to the Gumbel’s law. The results show that the occurrence of warm days and nights tends to increase while cool nights decreases