Friday 27 October - All day
This event is one of a series of engagements that GEO Mountains is undertaking during 2023 under the Adaptation at Altitude Programme. Overall, the work seeks to provide a platform to bring together data providers and data users from a range of disciplines working across the mountains of East Africa.
Following preliminary discussions, the proposed foci of the workshop are as follows:
- Exploiting existing climate data and information (gridded products, in situ time series, and climate change perception survey results) to conduct an intercomparison/evaluation of the utility of spatio-temporally complete gridded products in East African mountains, and;
- Capacity sharing, such that local scientists and other stakeholders are able to conduct such analysis efficiently, and gain a sense of ownership of such work. In this way, a major knowledge gap regarding the reliability of remotely-sensed and other gridded climate data products (e.g. model reanalyses) in the region will be addressed, and capacities of scientists working in the region will be enhanced.
Name of organizing project/institution: Mountain Research Initiative, Geo Mountains, University of York, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, UN-environment programme, ARCOS Network, University Rwanda, Technical University of Kenya
Convenors: James Thornton - University of Berne, Switzerland
Targeted audience: Open to all
Practical information: For more information and to apply, click here. The registration deadline for physical attendees is extended to 7 September 2023.