• Paying to conserve watershed services in Pangani River Basin, Tanzania 

  Lalika, Makarius C.S.; Meire, Patrick; Ngaga, Yonika M. (Springer Nature Switzerland, 2015)

  Human beings depend on the integrity of watersheds to provide ecosys- tem services (e.g., water) that they need for their survival. The current watershed degradation represents the most serious threat to the provision ...
• Resilience in climate stressed environment through water grabbing 

  Lalika, Makarius C. S. (Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020, 2020)

  Climate change (CC) is currently considered as the most severe and devastating environmental catastrophe facing the globe. CC is the latest environmental driver of global environmental change causing rainfall shortage ...
• The development of boundary layer structure index (BLSI) and its relationship with ground air quality 

  Zheng, Xiang; Qin, Jun; Liang, Shengwen; Yuan, Zhengxuan; Mbululo, Yassin (2018)

  Ambient air quality monitoring data and radar tracking sonde data were used to study the atmospheric boundary layer structure (ABLS) and its changing characteristics over Wuhan. The boundary layer structure index (BLSI), ...
• The relationship between atmospheric circulation, boundary layer and near-surface turbulence in severe fog-haze pollution periods 

  Yuan, Zhengxuan; Jun, Qin; Zheng, Xiang; Mbululo, Yassin (2019)

  Wind, temperature, relative humidity and aerosol mass concentration were monitored simultaneously in Wuhan, China. Several observations were found after analyzing the physical fields of these data. It was obvious that ...
• Potential industrial utilization of pre-treated municipal solid waste incineration fly ash 

  Yakubu, Yahaya; Zhou, Jun; Shu, Zhu; Tan, Yigen; Zhao, Zhengliang; Mbululo, Yassin (2018)

  This study sought to establish the effectiveness of water washing pre-treatment on the quality of municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) fly ash (FA) for reuse and solidification or stabilization (S/S). Initial analysis ...
• Potential application of pre-treated municipal solid waste incineration fly ash as cement supplement 

  Yahaya, Yakubu; Jun, Zhou; Zhu, Shu; Zhang, Yi; Wang, Wenbin; Mbululo, Yassin (Springer, 2018)

  Pre-treatment process carried out on raw municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) fly ash (FA) sample that did not comply initially with the USEPA method 1311 toxicity characteristic leaching procedure (TCLP) regulatory ...
• Performance of environmental impact assessment (EIA) regime in Tanzania 

  Mbululo, Y.; Katima, J. H. Y.; Nyihirani, F. (2014)

  Tanzania enacted the Environmental Management Act (EMA) in 2004 with Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) as one of its major tools for protecting environment from the impacts of development projects. According to ...
• Evolution of atmospheric boundary layer structure and its relationship with air quality in Wuhan, China 

  Mbululo, Yassin; Qin, Jun; Yuan, Zheng X (Springer, 2017)

  Air pollution data, air quality index (AQI) data and L band sounding data of Wuhan City from January 1 to February 28, 2015, were used in this study. Since air quality is mainly determined by the condition of the atmospheric ...
• Chemical composition and deposition fluxes of water-soluble inorganic ions on dry and wet deposition samples in Wuhan, China 

  Qin, Jun; Mbululo, Yassin; Yang, Muyi; Yuan, Zhengxuan; Nyihirani, Fatuma; Zheng, Xiang (MDPI, 2019)

  Measurement of PM2.5 concentration, dry and wet deposition of water-soluble inorganic ions (WSII) and their deposition flux was carried out. During sampling, a total number of 31 samples of PM2.5, five wet deposition ...
• Characteristics of atmospheric boundary layer structure during pm2.5 and ozone pollution events in Wuhan, China 

  Mbululo, Yassin; Qin, Jun; Hong, Jun; Yuan, Zhengxuan (MDPI, 2018)

  In this study, we investigated six air pollutants from 21 monitoring stations scattered throughout Wuhan city by analyzing meteorological variables in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) and air mass backward trajectories ...
• Boundary layer perspective assessment of air pollution status in Wuhan city from 2013 to 2017 

  Mbululo, Yassin; Qin, Jun; Yuan, Zhengxuan; Nyihirani, Fatuma; Zheng, Xiang (Springer Nature Switzerland, 2019)

  This study used daily air pollution data (PM2.5, PM10, SO2, NO2, CO, and O3) from nine monitoring stations inWuhan city to calculate the air quality index (AQI) from 2013 to 2017. Together with this data, L-band sounding ...
• Impact of spring AAO on summertime precipitation in the north China part: observational analysis 

  Yuan, Zhengxuan; Qin, Jun; Li, Shuanglin; Huang, Sijing; Mbululo, Yassin (Korean Meteorological Society and Springer Nature, 2020)

  By using the 160 stations monthly precipitation data and NOAA-ESRL reanalysis data, the effect of spring Antarctic Oscillation (AAO) on Summer Precipitation in North China (SPNC) is studied. The analysis results show that ...
• Climate characteristics over southern highlands Tanzania 

  Mbululo, Yassin; Nyihirani, Fatuma (Scientific Research, 2012)

  This study was conducted to examine the climate characteristic of southern highland Tanzania (Latitude 6°S - 12°S and Longitude 29°E - 38°E). The study findings reveal that rainfall over the region is linked with SST over ...
• The occurrence of cyanobacteria blooms in freshwater ecosystems and their link with hydro-meteorological and environmental variations in Tanzania 

  Kimambo, Offoro Neema; Gumbo, Jabulani Ray; Chikoore, Hector (Elsevier, 2019-03-07)
• Conservation of medicinal plants for managing HIV/AIDs opportunistic infections in Rungwe district, Mbeya region, Tanzania. 

  Kibonde, S. F. (Sokoine university of agriculture, 2019)

  The application of medicinal plants in primary health care for people living with HIV/AIDS is well acknowledged in Tanzania. However, the conservation status of medicinal plants is questionable. This study aimed at ...
• Soil Organic Carbon Accumulation, Climate Variability and Crop Production in Tanzania’s Semi-arid Agro-Ecological Zone: A Case Study of the Kongwa District 

  Mkonda, M. Y. (2018)

  Various ecological and environmental indicators including climate change, soil fertility, water availability and proper agronomic practices that form optimal agricultural systems are needed to be integrated for increasing ...
• A novel assessment of the impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation of climate change in Eastern Africa 

  Mkonda, M. Y. (2019)

  The evidences that climate change (CC) is a real situation have been established by different scholars and international organizations. However, much of the vast and burgeoning literature on CC has indicated spatial ...
• Conservation agriculture for environmental sustainability in a semiarid agroecological zone under climate change scenarios 

  Hong, Z.; Mkonda, M. Y.; He, X. (Sustainability, 2018)

  Using the Mann–Kendall Test to analyze data from a survey of 400 farmers, this study compared the rate of adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) in two contrasting villages of Mnyakongo and Ugogoni locating in the ...
• Stocks and ecological significance of soil carbon in Tanzania 

  Mkonda, M. Y.; He, X. (Natural Resources and Conservation, 2016)

  Numerous documentations have paid a few attentions to the mapping of soil organic carbon (SOC) in Tanzania. To any country, the estimation of SOC is very important as provide social, ecological and economic values just to ...
• Are rainfall and temperature really changing? Farmer’s perceptions, meteorological data, and policy implications in the Tanzanian semi-arid zone 

  Mkonda, M. Y.; He, X. (Sustainability, 2017)

  Although various climate models, statistical crop models and economic simulations have been established to determine the level of farmers’ vulnerability, there has been little systematic assessment of farmers’ perception ...

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