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Publications

My research focuses on climate variability, climate extremes, Earth system modelling, and the application of artificial intelligence to climate science. The publications below are organised by research theme.

🌍 Climate Extremes & Impacts

Research on compound climate hazards and their impacts.

Compound drought–flood events amplify socio-economic impacts at the global scale

Worou and Messori (2025)

Global assessment of compound drought–flood events and their socio-economic consequences.

Malaria outbreaks and climate variability

Nocentini et al. (2026)

Exploring climate-sensitive disease dynamics through large-scale data analysis.

Global inequalities in climate research

Shrestha et al. (2026)

Analysis of disparities in climate science citations and research visibility.

🤖 Artificial Intelligence for Climate Science

Research using artificial intelligence and large language models.

ClimateNLP

Li et al. (2024)

Using large language models to automatically extract information on climate impacts from scientific and public sources.

Wikimpacts 1.0

Li et al. (2026)

Large language models and NLP for building a comprehensive global climate-impact database.

🌊 Ocean–Atmosphere Interactions

Research on Atlantic variability, the Atlantic Niño, and West African climate.

These three articles are the core of my PhD research.

Future changes in the mean and variability of extreme rainfall indices over the Guinea Coast and role of the Atlantic equatorial mode

Worou et al. (2023)

Projected changes in Guinea Coast rainfall extremes under climate change, highlighting the influence of the Atlantic Niño.

Weakened impact of the Atlantic Niño on the future equatorial Atlantic and Guinea Coast rainfall

Worou et al. (2022)

Analysis of how climate change modifies the Atlantic Niño teleconnection and its influence on Guinea Coast rainfall.

Here is a contribution to a book chapter

Projected precipitation changes in Africa

Monerie et al. (2025)

Contributions to Earth system modelling and climate prediction

🧊 Earth System Modelling

Research contributing to numerical climate modelling.

Sea-ice thickness discretization in NEMO-LIM3

Massonnet et al. (2019)

Evaluation of the impact of sea-ice thickness discretization on coupled climate model simulations.

References

Climate Prediction Center. 2026. Climate Prediction Center Contacts. National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA. https://cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/information/personnel/contacts.shtml.
Crespo, Lander R., Arthur Prigent, Noel Keenlyside, et al. 2022. “Weakening of the Atlantic Niño Variability Under Global Warming.” Nature Climate Change 12 (9): 822–27. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01453-y.
Li, Ni, Wim Thiery, Shorouq Zahra, et al. 2026. “Wikimpacts 1.0: A New Global Climate Impact Database Based on Automated Information Extraction from Wikipedia.” Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 26 (6): 2609–36. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-26-2609-2026.
Li, Ni, Shorouq Zahra, Mariana Brito, et al. 2024. “Using LLMs to Build a Database of Climate Extreme Impacts.” Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change (ClimateNLP 2024), 93–110. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.climatenlp-1.7.
Lübbecke, Joke F., Belen Rodríguez‐Fonseca, Ingo Richter, et al. 2018. “Equatorial Atlantic Variability—Modes, Mechanisms, and Global Teleconnections.” WIREs Climate Change 9 (4). https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.527.
Massonnet, François, Antoine Barthélemy, Koffi Worou, et al. 2019. “On the Discretization of the Ice Thickness Distribution in the NEMO3.6-LIM3 Global Ocean–Sea Ice Model.” Geoscientific Model Development 12 (8): 3745–58. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-3745-2019.
Monerie, Paul-Arthur, Hamida Ngoma Nadoya, Izidine Pinto, Alain T. Tamoffo, and Koffi Worou. 2025. “Future Changes in Precipitation Distributions over Africa.” In Aerosols and Precipitation over Africa. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-44-314050-1.00011-6.
NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 2026. Data/Image Provided by the NOAA/OAR/PSL, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from Their Web Site at Https://Psl.noaa.gov/. National Oceanic; Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). https://psl.noaa.gov/disclaimer/.
Nocentini, Manuel Martellini O, Shivang Pandey, Leonardo Olivetti, et al. 2026. Climatic Drivers of Malaria Risk in Children Under Five: A Large-Scale Analysis of Individual-Level Data for 350,000 Children in 26 Sub-Saharan African Countries. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.17.26355855.
Richter, Ingo, Swadhin K. Behera, Yukio Masumoto, Bunmei Taguchi, Hideharu Sasaki, and Toshio Yamagata. 2012. “Multiple Causes of Interannual Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Equatorial Atlantic Ocean.” Nature Geoscience 6 (1): 43–47. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1660.
Shrestha, S. R., L. Olivetti, S. Pandey, K. Worou, and E. Raffetti. 2026. “The Citation Gap: An Overview of Academic Output in the Field of Natural Hazards and Climate Extremes Analyzed Through Google Scholar Data.” Progress in Disaster Science 29 (January): 100503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2025.100503.
Worou, Koffi, Thierry Fichefet, and Hugues Goosse. 2023. “Future Changes in the Mean and Variability of Extreme Rainfall Indices over the Guinea Coast and Role of the Atlantic Equatorial Mode.” Weather and Climate Dynamics 4 (2): 511–30. https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-511-2023.
Worou, Koffi, Hugues Goosse, Thierry Fichefet, Françoise Guichard, and Moussa Diakhate. 2020. “Interannual Variability of Rainfall in the Guinean Coast Region and Its Links with Sea Surface Temperature Changes over the Twentieth Century for the Different Seasons.” Climate Dynamics 55 (3-4): 449–70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05276-5.
Worou, Koffi, Hugues Goosse, Thierry Fichefet, and Fred Kucharski. 2022. “Weakened Impact of the Atlantic Niño on the Future Equatorial Atlantic and Guinea Coast Rainfall.” Earth System Dynamics 13 (1): 231–49. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-13-231-2022.
Worou, Koffi, and Gabriele Messori. 2025. “Compounding Droughts and Floods Amplify Socio-Economic Impacts.” Environmental Research Letters 20 (10): 104024. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adfe82.
Yang, Yun, Lixin Wu, Wenju Cai, et al. 2022. “Suppressed Atlantic Niño/Niña Variability Under Greenhouse Warming.” Nature Climate Change 12 (9): 814–21. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01444-z.
Zebiak, Stephen E. 1993. “Air–Sea Interaction in the Equatorial Atlantic Region.” Journal of Climate 6 (8): 1567–86. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(1993)006<1567:aiitea>2.0.co;2.