Meteorologer er snart klar til at oplyse, hvordan klimaforandringerne påvirker afrikanske områder helt ned på landsbyniveau.
Håbet er at hjælpe lokalsamfund til at tilpasse sig de ændrede klimatiske forhold.
Information about how climate change may affect any city, town or village in Africa until the next century will be available by mid-2012 as scientists localise global climate data, writes IRIN.
The Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX), an initiative of the World Meteorological Organization is now able to render the data from regional climate models to the scale people live in, and decision makers work at. The information will not only help countries but also communities in their efforts to adapt to changing weather patterns, and to tailor their disaster risk reduction plans.
The effort is geared to feed into the next assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), due to be released in 2014.
Although CORDEX aims to “downscale” the data for all regions of the world, Africa has been identified as the most vulnerable by the IPCC and a priority for the initiative. Historically the continent has been under-researched, but for the next two years will be a focus for the programme.
