Temitope Samuel Egbebiyi^1,2, Romaric Odoulami³, Victor A. Arowolo⁴, Akintunde Makinde⁵, Babatunde JOSEPH Abiodun⁶, Christopher J Lennard⁷, Mark G New³ and Timofei Sukhodolov⁸, (1)African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, (2)Climate System Analysis Group, Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, (3)University of Cape Town, African Climate and Development Initiative, Cape Town, South Africa, (4)Federal University of Technology, Department of Meteorology and Climate Science,, Akure, Nigeria, (5)University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa, (6)University of Cape Town, Nansen-Tutu Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, (7)University of Cape Town, Climate System Analysis Group, Cape Town, South Africa, (8)PMOD WRC Physical Meteorological Observatory Davos and World Radiation Center, Davos Dorf, Switzerland