Mr. Souleymane DIOP

Souleymane is a PhD student working with INRAE (CESBIO/ECOSYS) and Cirad under the supervision of Eric Ceschia and Ronny Lauerwald and co-supervision of Rémi Cardinael. He will investigate the effect of tillage and crop residue management on albedo, surface temperature and on the energy budget in two long-term experiments in Zimbabwe. He will improve the albedo module in the soil-crop model STICS and in the land surface and crop model ORCHIDEE-CROP. His work will contribute to a better consideration of biophysical effects for climate change mitigation.