Meet the editors

Dr John Abbot is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs in Australia, and has an adjunct research position at the University of Tasmania. He has worked as a research scientist in industry and universities including Queens University (Canada), the University of Tasmania, and Central Queensland University. Dr Abbot has a BSc (Imperial College), MSc (University of British Columbia), MBiotech (University of

Queensland) and a PhD (McGill University). He has published over 100 articles, including 12 on the application of neural networks to climatic phenomena, particularly rainfall forecasting. Interest in rainfall forecasting was stimulated by the severe flooding in Queensland during 2010/2011, when the low skill of official rainfall forecasts using general circulation models became evident.

Dr Andrew Hammond is a Senior Lecturer in Geoscience within CQUniversity's (formerly Central Queensland University) School of Engineering and Technology at its Rockhampton North Campus in central Queensland, Australia, which is located close to the southern portion of the World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef. He has gained BSc (Hons) degrees in geology and geography from the University of Tasmania, Australia; a MApplSc in

Soil Science from Lincoln University, New Zealand and a PhD in Earth Science from Massey University, New Zealand.

Dr Hammond and his research students' focus is on geohazards (mass movement and floods), pedology, hydrogeology of coastal catchments, geomorphology, sedimentology and mine geology within central Queensland.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by John Abbot*

*and Emad Abu AlFadail*

Change in Eastern Africa *by Msafiri Yusuph Mkonda*

*and Pingping Xie*

Impacts at Subregional Scales

**Section 3**

**Section 2**

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Rainfall Patterns and Impacts **15**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 35** A Novel Assessment of the Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation of Climate

**Chapter 4 51** WMO Space-Based Weather and Climate Extremes Monitoring Demonstration

Chemical and Physical Processes Associated with Rainfall **71**

**Chapter 5 73** Modeling Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in Mountainous Regions: Challenges in the Representation of Indirect Microphysical Effects with

Project (SEMDP): First Outcomes of Regional Cooperation on Drought and Heavy Precipitation Monitoring for Australia and Southeast Asia *by Yuriy Kuleshov, Toshiyuki Kurino, Takuji Kubota, Tomoko Tashima* 

*by Ana P. Barros, Prabhakar Shrestha, Steven Chavez and Yajuan Duan*

Statistical Analysis of Rainfall Patterns in Jeddah City, KSA: Future Impacts

*by Mazen M. Abu Abdullah, Ahmed M. Youssef, Fawzy Nashar* 

Introductory Chapter: Australia—A Land of Drought and Flooding Rain
