Development of Priority Climate Indices for Africa:
A CCI/CLIVAR Workshop of the World
Meteorological Organization
A. Mokssit
Preamble
In the framework of the Regional Rapporteur on Climate Change Detection and
Attribution Studies (CCDAS) activity in Africa, difficulties were met in term of
inviting Africans countries to report on their activities in this area of CCDAS due
to a number of reasons:
Absence of such CCDAS,
• lack of the necessary daily data to perform such kind of CCDAS,
• difficulties of countries to exchange their raw data.
In this situation it was necessary to think about an idea to make countries
perform Climate Indices by themselves and exchange these indices "rather than raw
data" through a Capacity Building process; So the role of Rapporteur was hence
converted in Capacity Building Implementation.
This idea was introduced and endorsed at the CCl/CLIV AR working group on
climate change detection meeting, during November 1999 in Geneva. Hence the
working group recommended the organization of a number of workshops on
regional climate indices. The current workshop is intended to help African countries
making a great progress in this area. Many climate indices will be developed using
the longest available and reliable station data. These indices will be shared with the
international research community interested in studying the African climate such as
the IPCC.
This Capacity building process concerned 28 participants from 23 African
countries (including Morocco) and Spain (listed below) and was conducted by a
resource team composed by Lisa Alexander (Hadley Centre, UK), David R.
Easterling (NCDC/NOAA, USA), Abdalah Mokssit & Rachid Sebbari (National
Met. Research Centre/ DMN, Morocco) and managed by Valery Detemermann from
WMO which sponsored the workshop.
A CCI/CLIVAR Workshop of the World
Meteorological Organization
A. Mokssit
Preamble
In the framework of the Regional Rapporteur on Climate Change Detection and
Attribution Studies (CCDAS) activity in Africa, difficulties were met in term of
inviting Africans countries to report on their activities in this area of CCDAS due
to a number of reasons:
Absence of such CCDAS,
• lack of the necessary daily data to perform such kind of CCDAS,
• difficulties of countries to exchange their raw data.
In this situation it was necessary to think about an idea to make countries
perform Climate Indices by themselves and exchange these indices "rather than raw
data" through a Capacity Building process; So the role of Rapporteur was hence
converted in Capacity Building Implementation.
This idea was introduced and endorsed at the CCl/CLIV AR working group on
climate change detection meeting, during November 1999 in Geneva. Hence the
working group recommended the organization of a number of workshops on
regional climate indices. The current workshop is intended to help African countries
making a great progress in this area. Many climate indices will be developed using
the longest available and reliable station data. These indices will be shared with the
international research community interested in studying the African climate such as
the IPCC.
This Capacity building process concerned 28 participants from 23 African
countries (including Morocco) and Spain (listed below) and was conducted by a
resource team composed by Lisa Alexander (Hadley Centre, UK), David R.
Easterling (NCDC/NOAA, USA), Abdalah Mokssit & Rachid Sebbari (National
Met. Research Centre/ DMN, Morocco) and managed by Valery Detemermann from
WMO which sponsored the workshop.