Equipe de recherche Biodiversité, Gestion des Ressources Naturelles et Changement Climatique (BIOGERENAT), Université Alioune Diop (UAD), Institut Supérieur de Formation Agricole et Rural (ISFAR), BP 54, Bambey, Senegal
Issues related to climate change are now at the heart of high-level scientific debates in the hope of identifying vulnerable areas. Among Senegal’s agroecological zones is the peanut basin the main area for growing peanuts and dry cereals, which is exposed to climate variability. Understanding the spatial and temporal variability of temperatures and precipitations, as well as characterizing their trends, is crucial to grasping the significance of climate change and its impacts on agroecological areas. To understand the diachronic evolution of temperatures and precipitation in the Peanut Basin, the research methodology was structured around the standardized precipitation index, the spatialization of maximum temperatures, the identification of thermal anomalies by applying the Lamb index, the detection of trends using the Mann Kendall test and the Sen slope following an established time step from 1981 to 2024. This reveals that in the Peanut Basin, on an annual scale, the distribution of maximum temperatures fluctuates between 35°C and 45 °C. However, the variation in average maximum (Tmax) and minimum (Tmin) temperatures indicates a more significant increase in minimum temperatures associated with a positive Sen slope at the Fatick, Kaolack, and Koungheul stations, confirming the hypothesis of the warming hypothesis in the central-south where the resumption of wet stages follows essentially dry occurrences with average annual rainfall oscillating between 509.62 mm (Thiès) and 715.27 mm (Koungheul).