How use of improved representation of convection impacts East Africa's water budget
A new paper by HyCRISTAL researcher Declan Finney explores a new 10-year convection-permitting simulation to study the characteristics of rainfall and atmospheric water budget for East Africa and the Lake Victoria basin. The results indicate that use of a convection-permitting climate model is more realistic as it provides a more physically-based realisation of the atmospheric dynamics around the complex topography of East Africa.
Decision-making and climate resilience in the water sector of Harare
A policy brief by FRACTAL summarizes the context of climate change, variability and water in Harare to contribute to the existing knowledge base on the city’s vulnerability and risks as well as to inform future, sustainable policy, planning and governance of the city in these sectors.
Exploring the power of collaboration to address climate change in Lusaka
The following blog from the Stockholm Environment Institute provides insight into new approaches to policymaking for dealing with the link between urban growth, climate change and residents health in Lusaka, Zambia.
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Embracing the uncomfortable silences in climate information exchange
This blog delves into the experiences of Sukaina Bharwani and Liz Daniels in the "learning labs" process of working with local stakeholders to identify on-the-ground climate change needs at a city-level.
Bull's-eye set for West Africa's 'great green wall' of trees
Dr Bamba Adama, a climate modeller in the Ivory Coast, has identified where the most effective place is to plant the 'great green wall' in West Africa, which aims to hold back the advancing desert and buffer the region's climate against rising global temperatures. Read more here.
Filmmaking to support agri-extension in Uganda
Social science researcher and filmmaker Dr Grady Walker will be training East African farmers to become their own visual storytellers in climate change, and to engage policy makers in a visual dialogue. Read the blog here.
Conflict resolution: a climate adaptation in East Africa?
We need to look at what climate change means in the context of the politics of land, the population question, the pressure for development, and the longer-term vulnerability of the fisher-farmer communities in the Lake Victoria Basin argues Prof. Andrew Ainsley. Read more here.
Windhoek: bridging the human divide between city managers and climate scientists
Kornelia Iipinge from Windhoek, in this blog, speaks to her experience being an embedded researcher in the Windhoek city government, and bridging the often lamented gap that exists between on-the-ground policy needs of a city, and the ivory-tower thinking of academia and climate research.
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Africa Climate Week, March 18-22, Accra, Ghana
The climate week's overarching theme is “Climate Action in Africa: A Race We Can Win” and will feed into the thematic sessions: Energy Transition, Nature-Based Solutions, and Cities and Local Action. The Africa Climate Week is hosted by the government of Ghana and is being co-organized by a number of core partners, including UNDP, World Bank Group, African Development Bank, West African Development Bank, CTCN, UNEP, UNEP DTU Partnership, IETA, Marrakech Partnership and UN Climate Change.
ACDI, Generation Change Early Career Researcher Conference, 10 April, Cape Town, South Africa
The conference aims to showcase new research on climate change and development around the theme of “What “leverage points” could bring about change in the system?". It is for students, early career researchers and practitioners under the age of 35.
Tropical Meteorology of West and East Africa, SWIFT - YESS International Summer School, 21 July- 2 August, Kumasi, Ghana
The Summer School will train the next generation of scientists in tropical meteorology and forecasting techniques. Deadlines for applications is 13 March.
IIED, Community Based Adaptation 13th conference: local solutions inspiring global action, 1-4 April, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
CBA13 will bring together practitioners, grassroots representatives, local and national government planners, policymakers and donors working at all levels and scales to discuss how we can drive ambition for a climate-resilient future.
Sustainable Agriculture Summit Africa, 9-11 April, Nairobi, Kenya
The first Sustainable Agriculture Summit Africa will focus on the African region, and highlight best practice, technologies, partnerships and real-life implementations along with one of the themes being climate smart agriculture.
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Recent publications by FCFA authors
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A.M. Ramos; R. C. Blamey; I.Algarra; R.Nieto; L.Gimeno; R.Tomé; C.J.C. Reason; R.M. Trigo (2019), From Amazonia to southern Africa: atmospheric moisture transport through low‐level jets and atmospheric rivers, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1436, 217 - 230.
R. C. Blamey; S. R. Kolusu; P. Mahlalela; M. C. Todd; C. J. C. Reason, (2018) The role of regional circulation features in regulating El Niño climate impacts over southern Africa: A comparison of the 2015/2016 drought with previous events (2018), International Journal of Climatology, 28(11), 4276 - 4295.
R. Barimalala; F. Desbiolles; R.C. Blamey; C. Reason (2018) Madagascar Influence on the South Indian Ocean Convergence Zone, the Mozambique Channel Trough and Southern African Rainfall, 45 ( 20), 11 380 - 11 389.
Scott, D., Iipinge, K.N., Mfune, J.K.E., Muchadenyika, D., Makuti, O.V., Ziervogel, G. (2018) The Story of Water in Windhoek: A Narrative Approach to Interpreting a Transdisciplinary Process Water 2018, 10 (10), pp. 1366.
K. Vincent; M. Daly; C. Scannell; B. Leathes (2018) What can climate services learn from theory and practice of co-production? 12, 48 - 58.
N.C.G. Hart; R. Washington; R. A. Stratton (2018) Stronger Local Overturning in Convective-Permitting Regional Climate Model Improves Simulation of the Subtropical Annual Cycle, Geophysical Research Letter, 11 334 - 11 342.
C.Sideriusa; H.Biemansb; J. J. Kashaigilic; D. Conway (2018) Going local: Evaluating and regionalizing a global hydrological model’s simulation of river flows in a medium-sized East African basin, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 19, 349 - 364.
J.Pardoe; K.Vincent; D. Conway (2018) How do staff motivation and workplace environment affect capacity of governments to adapt to climate change in developing countries? Environmental Science and Policy, 90, 46 - 53.
A full list of publications can be found here.
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