Diallo, Ismaila

Assistant Professor                                                                Profile

Department of Meteorology and Climate Science                         

1 Washington Sq., San Jose, CA 95192                                     

Office: ISB 754 (within ISB 750 WIRC office suite)                   

Email     

Preferred:  ismaila.diallo@sjsu.edu

ORCID: 0000-0003-1209-4107                                                                  

Telephone                                                                        

Preferred: (408) 924-5206                                                             

Education

  • Ph.D. in Climate and Climatic Impacts, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal, 2015
  • GRA. in Numerical Modeling, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy 2014 
  • MSc. in Meteorology and Oceanography, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal, 2009
  • BS. in Physics and Chemistry, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal, 2007

Bio

Ismaila Diallo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science and a Researcher at the Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center (WIRC) at San José State University (SJSU). He earned a M.Sc. in Meteorology and a Ph.D. in Climate and Climatic Impacts from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal. His research interests are in Climate Sciences and Dynamic Meteorology. Dr. Diallo's work promarily focuses on land surface modeling; land-atmosphere-ocean interactions; climate variability, change, and anomalies; the predictability of extreme events--particularly rainfall; monsoon systems; regional climate downscaling; and wildfires.

Research Interests

  • Land surface modeling & Land/Atmosphere interactions
  • Climate dynamics, Weather processes and Monsoon system dynamics
  • Regional and Global Climate System Modeling; Artificial Intelligence for Earth Systems
  • Climate variability, Change and Impacts (on water, energy, ecosystems, agriculture, air quality)
  • Wildfire and Climate Change
  • Extreme Mechanisms (drought, flood, wildfire) and Sub-seasonal to seasonal predictions

Classes Taught

  • METR 10 - Weather and Climate
  • METR 12 - Global Warming: Science and Solutions
  • METR 112 - Global Climate Change
  • METR 123 - Advanced Climatology
  • METR 173 - Global Climate Modeling

Selected Publications

  • Gueye A, Niang SAA, Diallo I, Drame MS, Diallo M, Younous AA. (2025) On the application of Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network for daily forecasting of PM2.5 in Dakar, Senegal (West Africa). Sustainability 2025, 17, 5421. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17125421.
  • Dessacka AK, Fotso-Nguemo TC, Tall M, Yepdo ZD, Chouto S, Dikwa BD, Komelo CK, Nonki RM, Diallo I, Sana H, Diedhiou A, Monkam D (2025) Potential Impact of increased global warming on the hydroclimatology of Central Africa during the twenty-first century. Earth Systems Environment, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-025-00710-2. 
  • Nayak HP, Xue Y, Li Q, Neelin DJ, Diallo I, Cao Z, Vasic R. (2025) Effect of Rocky Mountain and Tibetan Plateau 1998 Spring Land Temperature on N. American and East Asian Summer precipitation anomalies. Submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD042318.  
  • Testani N, Cappelletti LM, Diaz LB, Prudente C, Rabanal V, Mindlin J, Börner R, Divya DT, Diallo I, Leyba IM, Osman M, Tangarife-Escobar A. (2025) Balancing Earth science careers in an unequal world. perspective. Communications Earth & Environment 6, 22 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01964-w. 
  • Akinsanola AA, Wenhaji CW, Barimalala R, Monerie P-A, Dixon RD, Tamoffo AT, Adeniyi MO, Ongoma V, Diallo I, Gudoshava M, Wainwright CM, James R, Silverio KC, Faye A, Namgombe S, and Co-authors (2025) Modeling of Precipitation over Africa: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects. Advance in Atmospheric Sciences, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-024-4187-6.
  • Nnamchi HC and Diallo I (2024) Inconsistent Atlantic Links to Precipitation Extremes over the Humid Tropics. Earth System and Environment 8: 347–368. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-023-00370-0.
  • Audu EO, Dixon RD, Diallo I (2024) Understanding the Zonal Variability in Projections of Sahel Precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(20), e2024GL110177. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110177.
  • Moihamette F, Pokam WM, Diallo I, Washington R (2024) Response of regional circulation features to the Indian Ocean dipole and influence on Central Africa climate. Climate Dynamics 62, 1–21 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07251-w.
  • Niang SA, Cisse A, Dramé MS, Diallo I, Diedhiou A, Ndiaye SO, Talla K, Dioum A, Tchakondo Y (2024) A Tale of Sustainable Energy Transition under New Fossil Fuel Discoveries: The Case of Senegal (West Africa). Sustainability, 16(23), 10633. https://doi.org/10.3390/su162310633.
  • Dramé MS, N'Diaye PM, Niang SA, Diallo I, Sarr A, Gueye A, Niang DN (2024) On the characterization of Cloud occurrence and its impact on solar radiation in Mbour, Senegal. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 261: 106284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2024.106284.
  • Sy S, 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 Journal of Climatology, 44(1): 305–327. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8331.
  • Diallo I, Xue Y, Chen Q, Ren X, Guo W. (2024) Effects of spring Tibetan Plateau land temperature anomalies on early summer floods/droughts over the monsoon regions of East Asia and South Asia. Climate Dynamics, 62(4): 2659-2681. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-06053-8.
  • Xue Y, Diallo I, Boone AA, Zhang Y, Zeng X, Lau WK, Neelin JD, Yao T, Tang Q, Sato T and Co-authors (2024) Remote effects of Tibetan Plateau Spring land temperature on global subseasonal to seasonal precipitation prediction and comparison with effects of sea surface temperature: the GEWEX/LS4P Phase I experiment. Climate Dynamics, 62(4): 2603-2628. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06905-5. 
  • Zhang Y, Pan Y, Xue Y, Diallo I, Zeng X, Li S, Neelin JD, Lau WK, Boone AA, Vitart F, Yao T and co-authors (2024) Near-global summer circulation response to the spring surface temperature anomaly in Tibetan Plateau––the GEWEX/LS4P first phase experiment. Climate Dynamics, 62(4): 2907-2924. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07210-5. 
  • Fotso‐Kamga G, Fotso‐Nguemo TC, Diallo I, Nyanchi GT, Yepdo ZD, Chouto S, Kaissassou S, Zebaze S, Tanessong RS, Djiotang Tchotchou LA, Vondou DA (2023) Projected changes in extreme precipitation and temperature events over Central Africa from COSMO‐CLM simulations under the global warming level of 1.5° C and above. International Journal of Climatology, 43(13): 6330-51. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8208. 
  • Saha SK, Xue Y, Krishnakumar S, Diallo I, Shivamurthy Y, Nakamura T, Tang Q, and Chaudhari HS. (2023) A dominant mode in the first phase of the Asian Summer Monsoon rainfall: Role of antecedent remote land surface temperature. Climate Dynamics, 61(5): 2735-2751. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06709-7.
  • Xue Y, Diallo I, Boone AA, Yao T, Zhang Y, Zeng X, Neelin JD, Lau WKM, Pan Y, Liu Y, Pan X, Tang Q, van Oevelen PJ, Sato T, Koo MS, Materia S, Shi C, Yang J, Ardilouze C, Lin Z, Qi X, Nakamura T, Saha SK, Senan R, Takaya Y, Wang H, Zhang H, Zhao M, Nayak HP, Chen Q, Feng J, Brunke MA and co-authors (2022) Spring Land Temperature in Tibetan Plateau and Global-Scale Summer Precipitation – Initialization and Improved Prediction. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, E2756-E2767. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0270.1.
  • Moihamette F, Pokam WM, Diallo I, Washington R. (2022) Extreme Indian Ocean dipole and rainfall variability over Central Africa. International Journal of Climatology, 42(10), 5255-5272. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7531.
  • Anwar SA, Diallo I. (2022) Modelling the Tropical African Climate using a state-of-the-art coupled regional climate-vegetation model. Climate Dynamics 58(1), 97-113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05892-9.
  • Fotso-Nguemo TC, Vondou DA, Diallo I, Diedhiou A, Weber T, Nghonda JP, Yepdo ZD. (2022) Potential impact of 1.5, 2 and 3 °C global warming levels on heat and discomfort indices changes over Central Africa. Science of the Total Environment, 804, 150099. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150099.
  • Anwar SA, Ossénatou M, Diallo I, Sylla MB. (2021) On the influence of vegetation cover changes and vegetation-runoff systems on the simulated Potential Evapotranspiration over Tropical Africa using a regional climate model (RegCM4). Earth Systems and Environment 5(4), 883-897. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-021-00252-3.
  • Xue Y, Yao T, Boone AA, Diallo I, Liu Y. and co-authors (2021) Impact of Initialized Land Surface Temperature and Snowpack on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project, Phase I (LS4P-I): Organization and Experimental design. Geoscientific Model Development 14. 4465-4494. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-1-2021.
  • Anwar SA, Diallo I. (2021a) A RCM investigation of the influence of vegetation status and runoff scheme on the summer Gross Primary Production in Africa. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-021-03667-0.
  • Anwar SA, Diallo I. (2021b) On the role of a coupled vegetation-runoff system in simulating the tropical African climate: a regional climate model sensitivity study. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 145: 313-325. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-021-03627-8.
  • Anwar SA, Diallo I. (2021c) The influence of two land-surface hydrology schemes on the terrestrial carbon cycle of Africa: A regional climate model study. International Journal of Climatology 41(Suppl. 1): E1202-E1216. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6762 .
  • Yu L, Xue Y, Diallo I. (2021) Vegetation greening in China and its effect on summer regional climate. Science Bulletin 66(1), 13-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2020.09.003. 
  • Kebe I*, Diallo I*, Sylla MB, De Sales F, Diedhiou A. (2020) Late 21st Century Projected Changes in the Relationship between Precipitation, African Easterly Jet, and African Easterly Waves. Atmosphere, 11(4), 353. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11040353. (*corresponding author and these authors have contributed equally to this work).
  • Huang H, Xue Y, Chilikoti N, Liu Y, Chen G, Diallo I. (2020) Assessing global and regional effects of reconstructed land use and land cover change on climate since 1950 using a coupled land-atmosphere-ocean model. Journal of Climate 33(20), 8997-9013. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0108.1.
  • Diallo I, Xue Y, Li Q, De Sales F, Li W. (2019) Dynamical downscaling the impact of spring Western U.S. land surface temperature on the 2015 flood extremes at the Southern Great Plains: Effect of domain choice, dynamic cores and land surface parameterization. Climate Dynamics, 53(1-2), 1039-1061. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04630-6.
  • Fotso-Nguemo TC, Diallo I, Diakhaté M, Vondou DA, Mbaye ML, Haensler A, Gaye AT, Tchawoua C. (2019) Projected changes in the seasonal cycle of daily rainfall characteristics for the twenty first century in CORDEX projections. Climatic Change, 155(3), 339-357. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02492-9.

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