
The information is expected to help countries and local communities in their efforts to adapt to changing weather patterns, and to tailor their disaster risk reduction plans. CORDEX aims to downscale the data for all regions of the world, but Africa — which has so far been under-researched and has been identified as the most vulnerable by the IPCC — is a priority for the initiative.
The CORDEX Africa campaign will also allow African climatologists to meet other African scientists who study vulnerability, adaptation and the impact of climate change on people, to translate the model numbers into meaningful, usable information. Experts from countries that include Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe will analyse the data....
A village in Benin, shot by rgrilo, Wikimedia Commons via Flickr, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
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