Glossary of Terms - Rwema25/AE-project GitHub Wiki

This page serves as the central repository for key terms, definitions, and formulas essential to our agroecological (AE) project. Many definitions herein are adapted from ISO standards (ISO 14050). Climate hazard definitions and their corresponding formulas are sourced from a relevant agriculture-focused project's GitHub repository.

Terms relating to climate change and climate action

Terms	Definitions
Climate	Statistical description of the weather in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months to thousands or millions of years
Climate scenario	Plausible and often simplified representation of the future climate, based on an internally consistent set of climatological relationships that has been constructed for explicit use in investigating the potential consequences of anthropogenic climate change
Climate change	Change in climate that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer
Climate change exposure	Potential impact of climate change on locations and their social, economic, and natural structures
Climate action	Human intervention to achieve climate change measures or goals based on mitigation or adaptation priorities under climate change policies
Indicator	An indicator is a quantitative, qualitative, or binary variable that can be measured, calculated, or described, representing the status of operations, management, conditions, or impacts
Hazard	Potential source of injury or damage to the health of people, or damage to property or the environment
Site	Location with geographical boundaries, and on which activities under the control of an organization can be carried out

Hazards definitions

The AE project assesses several key climate hazards, each defined by specific indicators and categorized by severity. This structured approach supports robust climate risk assessment and informs adaptation planning across sectors. This section is designed to help users understand how different hazards are identified, measured, and categorized. Further details on the hazards are available on GitHub, GitHub

Hazards Covered Heat Stress -For humans -For livestock -For crops Drought Stress Waterlogging/Flooding Stress

GitHub links

For downloading the datasets: On this GitHub, you find a script / function that helps download the dataset based on specified dates and/or spatial domain. The five datasets covered are CHIRPS/CHIRTS (from the Climate Hazards Group), AgERA5 (from the EU Copernicus service), CMIP6 projections, and crop calendars.

For calculating hazards: On this GitHub, you find a script / function that helps calculate hazards indices from the five datasets downloaded (CHIRPS/CHIRTS (from the Climate Hazards Group), AgERA5 (from the EU Copernicus service), CMIP6 projections, and crop calendars).

Acronyms

GitHub metadata to adopt: GitHub