SASSCAL WeatherNet to support regional weather monitoring and climate-related research in Southern Africa

摘要

Considering projected climate change and socio-economic development for sub-Saharan Africa, a major challenge in Southern Africa is to secure water at sufficient quality and quantity for both human well-being and the stability of ecosystem functions and services. Many countries of Southern Africa face inadequate monitoring networks to provide reliable data for the development of efficient management strategies for sustainable water and land resources management, drought and flood risk analyses and forecasts, but also climate change impact assessments. For example, in Angola, Botswana and Zambia there is a demand to improve existing national weather monitoring networks in order to provide up-to-date information for decision makers and the public. The Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management addresses this deficiency and extends the national monitoring networks in order to provide a consistent and freely accessible data set at regional scale.