Challenges and ways forward for sustainable weather and climate services in Africa

Benjamin Lamptey; Salah Sahabi Abed; Masilin Gudoshava; Joseph Mutemi; Mary-Jane Bopape; Elijah Adesanya Adefisan; Moudi Pascal Igri; Ibrah Seidou Sanda; Ousmane Ndiaye; Douglas J Parker; Andrew J Dougill; Andreas H Fink; Peter Knippertz; Steve Woolnough; Erik W Kolstad

doi:10.1038/s41467-024-46742-6

Challenges and ways forward for sustainable weather and climate services in Africa

Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 26;15(1):2664. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-46742-6.

Authors

Benjamin Lamptey^{1

2}, Salah Sahabi Abed³, Masilin Gudoshava⁴, Joseph Mutemi⁵, Mary-Jane Bopape⁶, Elijah Adesanya Adefisan⁷, Moudi Pascal Igri⁸, Ibrah Seidou Sanda⁹, Ousmane Ndiaye¹⁰, Douglas J Parker^{11

12

13}, Andrew J Dougill¹⁴, Andreas H Fink¹⁵, Peter Knippertz¹⁵, Steve Woolnough^{12

16}, Erik W Kolstad^{13

17}

Affiliations

¹ University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. [email protected].
² West African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, Accra, Ghana. [email protected].
³ National Meteorological Office, Algiers, Algeria.
⁴ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC), Nairobi, Kenya.
⁵ University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁶ South African Weather Service, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁷ Federal University of Technology Akure, Akure, Nigeria.
⁸ Climate Applications and Prediction Centre for Central Africa (CAPC-AC), Douala, Cameroon.
⁹ AGRHYMET CCR-AOS, Niamey, Niger.
¹⁰ ANACIM, Dakar, Senegal.
¹¹ University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
¹² National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Leeds, UK.
¹³ NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway.
¹⁴ University of York, York, UK.
¹⁵ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
¹⁶ National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading, Reading, UK.
¹⁷ Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway.

Abstract

Sustainability of African weather and climate information can only be ensured by investing in improved scientific understanding, observational data, and model capability. These requirements must be underpinned by capacity development, knowledge management; and partnerships of co-production, communication and coordination.