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This repo mainly serves the partnership between Kenya Meteorological Department KMD and the Swiss project partners MeteoSwiss, Empa and Agroscope.
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Meetings
See Meetings for an overview.
Introduction and Work Packages
The KADI Coordination and Support Action is a Horizon Europe project in response to the HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-01 call and intends to advance the foundations for a pan-African research infrastructure for atmospheric and climate services. It is led by ICOS. Specifically, KADI will conceptualize climate change observation in an inter-disciplinary African-European cooperation. The specific objectives of the proposed project are:
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A comprehensive design for a pan-African climate observation system developed on the basis of climate services as guiding design principle. This shall be rooted in a comprehensive documentation of past and existing observing capability, contrasted with scientifically justified requirements to identify the gaps, as facilitated by the WMO WIGOS OSCAR tool and the SEACRIFOG collaborative tool.
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A broad information network as basis for a successful and sustainable cooperation that connects infrastructure operators, scientists, data and knowledge users, a community of practice in climate services, agencies and funding bodies. This will be achieved by a dense networking and knowledge exchange approach connecting to all important players on the global (e.g. UNFCCC, WMO, GCOS, UNESCO-IOP, GEO), continental (AU/EU), national (e.g. weather services, governmental agencies) and local level (universities, local authorities).
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A solid strategy for implementation and usage in close connection to future actors and users. Our ambition is to provide more than a simple design study but rather a comprehensive concept that will be ready to apply as soon as resources become available. Key players to carry the research infrastructure will be identified. Moreover, the project aims to delve deeply into the political sphere in search of sustainable funding.
WP 1: Definition of Required Climate Services
Objectives
This work package will investigate the climate services needs of different stakeholders across Africa with a view to inform the scoping and definition of the observational and modelling infrastructure in demand (i.e. WP3) as well as provide information for the proposed case studies (WP2). Firstly, this WP aims at identifying, analysing and characterizing climate service needs via systematic literature and service review at multiple scales and contexts in Africa. Then, via collaborative and participatory engagement of key actors and organizations, these services will be validated with their potential data and infrastructure designs. This work package will be crucial in building collaborative environment for the implementation of the other work packages of this project, as well as the implementation of the envisaged infrastructures. Work Package leaders are UP, UTU and WITS; participating organizations: ICOS, AEMET, UFHB, KMD. All participants will contribute to the two tasks. The team of researchers working on this objective brings together expertise from across regions in Africa as well as from European researchers.
WP 2: Climate Service Pilots
Objectives
Several pilots in WP2 will deepen and test the general concept by providing experience to co-design the requirements of climate services (WP1) with observational design and technical feasibility (WP3). They focus on some key parts of a future research infrastructure, namely: • Earth System Modeling as important data integration and knowledge generation tool that may feed multiple climate services. • Coastal bio-geochemistry as crucial part of the climate and carbon system and potential source of climate services at from local to global scale.
- Cities as complex societal systems requiring services combining climate change mitigation, adaptation and air quality.
- Experiences as inevitable part of the human dimension of the research infrastructure. The WP is coordinated by NRF and NORCE; the participation and resource distribution is documented at task level.
WP 3: Strategic Infrastructure Design
Objectives
WP 3 will translate the results of WP 1 into observational demands, compare them with existing observations, analyse gaps and provide a concept for a pan-African climate observation research infrastructure. The design study will comprise:
- A comprehensive compilation of envisaged observational networks related to specific challenges and climate services.
- A concept for an integrative data infrastructure.
- A thorough reflection about the necessary scientific capacities within the infrastructure.
- A design study for assimilating the observational data into modeling capacities supporting climate services.
- A basic outline of standardized climate services that can be provided as routine output from the pan-African climate observation research infrastructure
WP4:
Objectives
The activities in WP4 will build on previous WPs in the KADI project to develop a knowledge exchange platform that will maximise the dissemination and discussion of information between European and African stakeholders. This WP will hold a series of three online workshops that will endeavour to summarise the current state of knowledge from previous projects and activities on WPs 2 and 3 to provide clarity on our current understanding of infrastructural requirements; to identify knowledge gaps that still need to be addressed and provide an opportunity to reflect and compile the activities and outcomes of the KADI project to further our understanding. This WP will also work to exchange experience within the African scientific community, with particular focus on early career researchers, by providing opportunities for African scientists to undertake training placements at the pilot study sites (WP2) and also through the delivery summer schools at operational observation platforms. The definition of calls and decision processes will be developed during the first months of the project. The Work package is solely organised by TCD with content coming from the other WPs.