M. ZAHIRI Eric Pascal is a Radar-meteorology scientist. He is a Lecturer at Félix Houphouët-Boigny University in Abidjan, Côte D’Ivoire. He is currently the Lead of EVIDENCE research project which addresses flood issues in Abidjan. His research interests include: Disaster Risk Reduction, estimation of rainfall from radar for hydro-meteorological applications, characterization of Mesoscale extreme rainfall events and their link with floods occurrences, variability of raindrop size distribution for designing radar rainfall estimators.