Project Results

We aim to become the main reference for all future climate service projects in the SADC region by advancing the science of climate services and producing effective climate service delivery.

FOCUS-AFRICA will become a repository for knowledge and tools necessary in the development of practical and useful climate services to better tackle the risks of climate change.

Through the work of our project partners and strategic partnerships between European and SADC organisations, FOCUS-Africa build upon past and ongoing related projects and advance the way climate services are developed and used throughout the supply chain of end-users.

• Verification of ERA5 and ERA-Interim precipitation over Africa at intra-annual and interannual timescales, Jessica Steinkopf , Francois Engelbrecht

• A Novel Bias Correction Method for Extreme Events, Laura Trentini, Sara Dal Gesso, Marco Venturini, Federica Guerrini, Sandro Calmanti, Marcello Petitta

• Atmospheric drivers affect crop yields in Mozambique, Robel Takele, Roberto Buizza, Matteo Dell’Acqua

• Important drivers of East African monsoon variability and improving rainy season onset prediction, Indrani Roy, Meshack Mliwa, Alberto Troccoli

• Seasonal forecasts of the rainy season onset over Africa: Preliminary results from the FOCUS-Africa project, Matteo Zampieri, Andrea Toreti, Michele Meroni, Dragana Bojovic

• Important drivers of southeast African monsoon variability: is early monsoon onset prediction and planning possible?  Indrani Roy, Meshack Mliwa, Alberto Troccoli