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The FCFA newsletter list has grown substantially in 2017. If this is the first edition you're receiving or you're still not quite sure what FCFA's objectives are or how the programme of work is structured, we invite you to watch our 2 minute introductory video and page through our brochure in English, French or Portuguese.
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HyCRISTAL: Newsletter
The team produced a public newsletter detailing current work and recent publications. The newsletter highlights HyCRSITAL’s success at achieving funding for two smaller projects, the Transport Pilot Project (HyTPP) and Climate Information for Resilient Tea Production (CI4T). The newsletter also details how new climate science is being used to project likely future flood impacts and incidences of disease.
IMPALA: No "One Size Fits All" Improving Climate Models for Africa Requires African Perspectives
IMPALA researchers are triggering discussion between climate modellers and African scientists about how best to evaluate climate models over Africa with an important position paper in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
UMFULA: New country briefs distil key climate trends for Tanzania and Malawi
UMFULA researchers have produced country climate briefs for Tanzania and Malawi, which give an overview of climate projections, key trends and messages for planning and decision making under an uncertain climate. News on the UMFULA annual meeting in Malawi can be accessed here.
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How to understand and interpret global climate model results
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Climate Risk and Vulnerability Handbook for Southern Africa
This handbook provides decision makers with up-to-date information on the impacts and risks of climate change and variability. The summary provides a southern Africa-specific overview of evidence for climate change, projected future climates, potential impacts across sectors, and responses to reduce risk (also available in Portuguese).
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Hydropower plans in Eastern and Southern Africa increase the risk of concurrent climate-related electricity supply disruption
A new paper in the journal Nature Energy, lead authored by Prof. Declan Conway, warns that hydropower dams planned for eastern and southern Africa could put future electricity supply at risk because they rely on the same rainfall patterns. Read Prof. Conway’s research overview here.
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Recent publications by FCFA authors
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Sabiiti, G., Ininda, J.M., Ogallo, L.A., Ouma, J., Artan, G., Basalirwa, C., Opijah, F., Nimusiima, A., Ddumba, S.D., Mwesigwa, J.B. and Otieno, G., 2018. Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Suitability of Banana Crop Production to Future Climate Change Over Uganda. In Limits to Climate Change Adaptation (pp. 175-190). Springer, Cham.
Okpara, U.T., Stringer, L.C. and Dougill, A.J., 2018. Integrating climate adaptation, water governance and conflict management policies in lake riparian zones: Insights from African drylands. Environmental Science & Policy, 79, pp.36-44.
Steward, P.R., Dougill, A.J., Thierfelder, C., Pittelkow, C.M., Stringer, L.C., Kudzala, M. and Shackelford, G.E., 2018. The adaptive capacity of maize-based conservation agriculture systems to climate stress in tropical and subtropical environments: A meta-regression of yields. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 251, pp.194-202.
A full list of recent publications is available for download.
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Blogs
Communicating Effectively, Creating Impact, and Getting Funded... Easy, right?
This blog questions how to improve the ability of Early Career Researchers (ERCs) to deliver high-quality research in the climate science field. It provides a synopsis of the training that took place following the FCFA Mid-term Conference.
Could stories help us explain complex and uncertain climate information?
This is the first blog in a series that will examine the role of narratives in bringing new climate information into processes to support resilient development actions in various African contexts.
How can improvements in climate models help decision makes?
This blog details how the current improvements in climate models will help decision makers to make more informed decisions and in turn reduce risks and protect the livelihoods of the most vulnerable.
Climate information value chains: Pathways to greater use of climate information in African decision-making?
This blog is the first in a series exploring the functioning of climate information value chains in African contexts and identifying sustainable and effective models for delivering climate services.
Webinars
How can climate models be improved over Africa? Investigating global models with local knowledge
This webinar unpacked the challenge of African model evaluation and introduced the work IMPALA is doing to turn an 'African lens' on climate models. It raised the longer-term challenge of delivering sustained improvement in climate representation and prediction over the continent, inviting discussion of a potential model evaluation "hub".
Demand for weather and climate services in Africa, and business models for private sector engagement
This webinar considered current weather and climate infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa and discussed how climate information services developments can be leveraged to create investment cycles that meet the needs of stakeholders.
Linking global warming with recent trends in intense storms in West Africa.
This webinar by Prof. Chris Taylor introduced the work of AMMA 2050 and provides insight into the rapid increase in intense Sahelian storms.
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CARIAA: "Enabling Collaboration and Synthesis"
This brief summarises the challenges of fostering collaboration and syntheses across a large network of researchers and highlights the need for active facilitation to enable connections to be made, relationships to develop and shared interests to be identified.
BRACED: "Developing decision-relevant climate information and supporting its appropriate application"
This brief examines how to develop decision-relevant climate information and support its appropriate application drawing on learning from the Zaman Lebidi BRACED consortium in Burkina Faso and collaboration with AMMA2050. Also available in French.
USAID: Identifying climate information services, users and their needs in sub-Saharan Africa: A learning agenda.
This paper presents a learning agenda for acquiring further knowledge about the users of climate information services (CIS) and their needs in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper identifies gaps in current practices and proposes how these knowledge gaps can be bridged.
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IPCC Call for CLA/LA/RE Nominations (SROCC), 3 Apr - 14 May
A Technical Conference (TECO) will be held in conjunction with the Seventeenth Session of the Commission for Climatology (CCl-17)
IPCC WG III - Expert Meeting, 26 April - 28 April, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Expert Meeting on Mitigation, Sustainability and Climate Stabilisation Scenarios
HydroConference, 7 – 9 May, 2018, Geneva, Switzerland
The Global Conference for Prosperity through Hydrological Services (HydroConference) aims to foster collaboration on improving the availability and use of hydrological services worldwide
Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Summit, 15 - 16 May, 2018, Nairobi, Kenya
The objective of the Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Summit is to provide an opportunity for cross-sector networking and knowledge exchange
5th International Conference on Energy & Meteorology, 22 – 24 May 2018, Shanghai, China.
The conference will focus on creating effective approaches for improved weather, climate and water services for energy.
Climatology, foundation for Climate Services, 11 – 22 June, 2018, Toulouse, France
An intensive training course, dedicated to climatologists and observation network managers. For more information see http://www.gfcs-climate.org/climatology-foundation-for-climate-services-2018
Adaptation Futures, 18 – 22 June 2018, Cape Town, South Africa
Adaptation Futures is the biennial conference of the Global Programme of Research on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation (PROVIA).
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Call for papers for African Rainfall Variability: Science and Society - a special issue of the open access journal, Atmosphere
You are invited to submit your current, previously unpublished work to the special issue, African Rainfall Variability, Science and Society.
The deadline for submission is 31 August 2018. Additional information including a manuscript submission form can be found here.
The Sahel-Soudano zone (North Africa, Senegal to Ethiopia) has experienced climatic variability for millennia. However stakeholders within the Sahel have limited access to and use of rainfall information for planning and management. The Special Issue presents the latest understanding of African rainfall variability and on-going efforts to translate this into useable information through knowledge co-production and dissemination, to assure content relevance and accuracy for intended purposes.
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