Dr. Nana Ama Browne Klutse

Nana Ama Browne Klutse is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Physics, University of Ghana. She was a Senior Research Scientist at the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission. She was the Manager of the Remote Sensing and Climate Center at the Institute. She holds a PhD in Climatology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research focuses on climate modelling, climate impact assessments on society (health, energy, and gender). She has worked on both national and international projects and consultancies including the climate and health project in Ghana and the ongoing global CORDEX experiment. She is a Lead Author in Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report (2018 to 2021). On her AIMS-NEI fellowship Program for Women in Climate Change Science, her research focused on the dynamics of extreme climate of Africa and the impact of extreme climate under global warming. She has co-authored a good number of journal article publications and academic books to her credit. Her article published in Environmental Research Letters in May 2018 on Potential impact of 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming on consecutive dry (CDD) and wet days (CWD) over West Africa revealed that enhanced warming results in a reduction in mean rainfall across the region, CDD will increase over the Guinea Coast, in tandem with a projected decrease in CWD at both 1.5 ◦C and 2◦C global warming. The articleconcludes that the difference in impacts between 1.5 °C and 2 °C warming on the projected changes imply that either we meet the threshold of 1.5 °C or 2 °C we are going to face similar seasonal impacts in consecutive dry and wet days over West Africa. Courses she teaches include General Physics, Cloud Physics, Atmospheric Physics, Climate Dynamics and Thermodynamics, Regional Climate modelling and Computational Tools for climate science. She is competent in programming languages like R, Python and FORTRAN. She supervises students’ research in Ghana and abroad at Masters and PhD levels. She also serves as an external examiner for universities in Ghana. She dedicates her life for community services, mentors young men and women for education pursuits, self-confidence and self-motivation. She also trains professionals in etiquettes and assertiveness. As part of her service to give back to society, she is a motivation speaker and articulates effectively on all platforms.   She is currently an AIMS-Canada Research Chair in Climate Change Science with AIMS Rwanda. The project she is embarking on is focused on understanding the climate dynamics of Africa, climate observations and projections for climate services.