UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
COLLEGE OF NATURAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES (CONAS)

EXAVERY KISESA MAKULA

Lecturer, College Of Natural And Applied Sciences
Education:

BSc (Dar), MSc, PhD (NUIST, China)

Teaching:

Research:

Research Interests:

  • Climate Change
  • Climate Variability
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Climate Extremes
  • Atmospheric Teleconnection
  • Air-sea Interaction
  • Tropical Cyclones
  • Atmosphere-Land-Ocean Interaction
  • Numerical weather prediction and Data assimilation

Projects:

  • Project title: Clean cooking for all: A novel application of Fresnel lens for a solar cooker

         Funding institution: UDSM

  • Project title: Agrivoltaic System as a Climate Smart Agriculture-Energy Approach for Small-Scale Farmers in Tanzania

Funding institution: UDSM

Publications:

 

 

  • Makula, E.K., and Zhou, B. (2022). Linkage of Tanzania Short Rain Variability to Sea Surface Temperature over the Southern Oceans. Frontiers in Earth Science Atmospheric Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.922172

 

  • Randriatsara, H. H.-R. H., Hu, Z., Ayugi, B., Makula, E.K., Vuguziga, F., and Nkunzimana, A. (2022). Interannual characteristics of rainfall over Madagascar and its relationship with the Indian Ocean sea surface temperature variation. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-022-03950-8

 

 

  • Ngoma, H., Wen, W., Ayugi, B., Karim, R., and Makula, E.K. (2021). Mechanisms associated with September to November (SON) rainfall over Uganda during the recent decades. Geographica Pannonica, 25(1), 10-23. https://doi.org/10.5937/gp25-29932

 

  • Umutoni, M.A., Japheth, L.P., Lipiki, E.J., Kebacho, L.L., Limbu, P.T.S. and Makula, E.K. (2021). Investigation of the 2016 March to May Extreme Rainfall over Rwanda. Natural Hazards. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-04697-7

 

  • Makula, E.K, Umutoni, M.A, Japheth, L.P, Lipiki, E.J, Kebacho, L.L, Limbu, P. T.S. (2020). The Covariability of Sea Surface Temperature and MAM Rainfall on East Africa Using Singular Value Decomposition Analysis. Geographica Pannonica, 24(4), 261–270. https://doi.org/10.5937/gp24-27577