My research focuses mainly on:

• Climate-vegetation interaction/feedback,
• Climate extremes and land-use change impacts,
• Global/regional climate/land surface modelling,
• Land-based climate change mitigation,
• Weather extreme attribution and uncertainties assessment

• Since Nov-2021   Research Assistant, Chair of Regional Climate and Hydrology, Augsburg University, Germany
• 2018-2021         Research Associate (Post-doc) at National Research Council of Italy, CNR-IMAA, Italy
• 2016-2017          Research Associate (Post-doc) at Ecological Monitoring Center (CSE), Senegal
• 2012-2016          PhD in Environmental Sciences, Sorbonnes University, Paris, France
• 2011-2012          MSc in Atmospheric physics at Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal
• 2007-2010          Study of Physics and Chemistry at Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal

SY, Souleymane., Madonna, F.,Serva, F., Diallo, I., & Quesada, B. (2024).Assessment of NA-CORDEX regional climate models, reanalysis and in situ gridded-observational data sets against the U.S.Climate Reference Network.International Journalof Climatology,44(1), 305–327.https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8331

Arnault J, Mwanthi AM, Portele T, Li L, Rummler T, Fersch B, Hassan MA, Bahaga TK, Zhang Z, Mortey EM, Achugbu IC, Moutahir H, SY, Souleymane, Wei J, Laux P, Sobolowski S and Kunstmann H (2023) Regional water cycle sensitivity to afforestation: synthetic numerical experiments for tropical Africa. Front. Clim. 5:1233536. doi: 10.3389/fclim.2023.1233536

Bakary Faty, Geert Sterk, Abdou Ali, Souleymane Sy, Honoré Dacosta, Salif Diop & Luc Descroix (2023) Satellite-based rainfall estimates to simulate daily streamflow using a hydrological model over Gambia watershed, Water Science, 37:1, 151-168, DOI: 10.1080/23570008.2023.2225898 

MADONNA, Fabio, TRAMUTOLA, Emanuele, SY, Souleymane, et al. The new Radiosounding HARMonization (RHARM) data set of homogenized radiosounding temperature, humidity, and wind profiles with uncertainties. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, (2022), vol. 127, no 2, p. e2021JD035220.

DIOUF, Ibrahima, SY, Souleymane, SENGHOR, Habib, et al. Potential contribution of climate conditions on COVID-19 pandemic transmission over West and North African countries. Atmosphere, 2021, vol. 13, no 1, p. 34.

Madonna, F., Sy, Souleymane., Tramutola, E., Serva, F., Proto, M., Rosoldi, M., ... & Thorne, P. W. (2021). The new Radiosounding HARMonization (RHARM) dataset of homogenized radiosounding temperature, humidity and wind profiles with uncertainties. Part II: comparisons with reanalysis, satellite data and validation of uncertainties, in review in Journal of Geophysical Research, https://www.essoar.org/doi/abs/10.1002/essoar.10507042.1

Madonna, F., Tramutola, E., Sy, Souleymane., Serva, F., Proto, M., Rosoldi, M., ... & Thorne, P. W. (2021). The new Radiosounding HARMonization (RHARM) dataset of homogenized radiosounding temperature, humidity and wind profiles with uncertainties. Part I: dataset description and characterization, in review in Journal of Geophysical Research https://www.essoar.org/doi/10.1002/essoar.10507025.1

Sy, Souleymane et QUESADA, Benjamin. Anthropogenic land cover change impact on climate extremes during the 21st century. Environmental Research Letters, (2020), vol. 15, no 3, p. 034002 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab702c

Sy, Souleymane., Madonna, F., Rosoldi, M., Tramutola, E., Gagliardi, S., Proto, M., Pappalardo, G., (2020). Sensitivity of trends to estimation methods and quantification of subsampling effects in global radiosounding temperature and humidity time series. Int. J. Climatol,1-23. https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/joc.6827

Madonna, F., Tramutola, E., Sy, Souleymane., Serva, F., Proto, M., Rosoldi, M., Gagliardi, S., Amato, F., Marra, F., Fassò, A., Gardiner, T., Thorne, P.W., (2020). Radiosounding HARMonization (RHARM): a new homogenized dataset of radiosounding temperature, humidity and wind profiles with uncertainty. In review, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. 1–38. https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2020-183/essd-2020-183.pdf

Sy. Souleymane.; Noblet-Ducoudré, N.D.; Quesada, B.; Sy, I.; Dieye, A.M.; Gaye, A.T.; Sultan, B. Land-Surface Characteristics and Climate in West Africa: Models’ Biases and Impacts of Historical Anthropogenically-Induced Deforestation. Sustainability (2017), 9, 1917. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/10/1917

Sy.Souleymane, B. Sultan, A. T. Gaye (2017). Occupation des sols et changement climatique en Afrique de l'Ouest : Nouvelles parcelles d’agriculture, qui remplacent les forêts primaires, ont-elles un impact significatif sur le climat? Editions universitaires européennes (Géosciences)- ISBN-13: 978-3-639-62125-9,192p. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Occupation-changement-climatique-Afrique-lOuest/dp/3639621255

  See also links below 

• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8834-7620  
• ResearchGate:  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Souleymane-Sy 
• Google Citation: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=MJ4244sAAAAJ&hl=fr

• Since Nov-2021     CONCERT: Greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation options under climate and land use change in West                                 Africa: A concerted regional modeling and observation assessment
• 2018 - 2021           C3S: Europeen Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) implemented by ECMWF
• 2016-2017             Reference Office On Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies