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Regional climate projections for impact assessment studies in East Africa [1]

In order to overcome limitations of climate projections from Global Climate Models (GCMs), such as coarse spatial resolution and biases, in this study, the Statistical Down-Scaling Model (SDSM) is used to downscale daily precipitation and maximum and minimum temperature (T-max and T-min) required by impact assessment models. [2] We focus on East Africa, a region known to be highly vulnerable to climate change and at the same time facing challenges concerning availability and accessibility of climate data.

Original Source [3]

Publication Date: 
16/04/2019
Solomon H Gebrechorkos [4], Stephan Hülsmann [5], Christian Bernhofer [6]
Environmental Research Letters [7]
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Tags:
Climate Change [8], Africa [9], Rainfall Pattern [10], Ethiopia [11], Kenya [12], Tanzania [13], Climate Adaptation [14]
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[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/climate-projections-East-Africa.pdf
[3] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab055a
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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/stephan-h%C3%BClsmann
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/christian-bernhofer
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[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kenya
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tanzania
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-adaptation