DOWN2EARTH
@D2E_Project
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EU Horizon 2020 Project. Understanding expressions of climate in Horn of Africa drylands & impacts on H2O/food security, climate adaptation, policy.
Joined January 2020
Find out more about our work by watching our project video👉 https://t.co/Eh437JEMNy
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🌍 Wrapping up Day 2 of our joint workshop with @ConferEU & @D2E_Project! We've shared insights, identified gaps, & reflected on policy impacts. Tomorrow: World Café with EU stakeholders. Stay tuned! #ClimateServices #ClimateAdaptation #SustainableFuture
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🌾 New crop yield forecast using machine learning, scalable for the #HornofAfrica. 🌧️ Improved predictions of rainy season onset for the #GHA. 🎓 Massive Open Online Course (#MOOC) for journalists in collaboration with @bbcmediaaction, @FocusAFRICA_EU, and @D2E_Project. 2/3
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🌍💧 This morning, the @D2E_Project team kicked off their Climate into Water and Land Information in Drylands (#CUWALID) model training at #ICPAC. The model—a key component of the Project—integrates #anticipatoryaction, where risk levels are considered to develop different
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Changing weather patterns are irrevocably changing the lives of people like Mohammed. On #WorldEarthDay2024 find out more about our project in Somalia and Kenya called #Down2Earth: https://t.co/QOFNX0iiHa
#WorldEarthDay
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The #EGU24 PICO session on Human Water Feedbacks was a big success! Thanks to all the speakers and the interested audience. @IleenStreefkerk presented her work on drought adaptation in East Africa and gathered a nice crowd. @VU_IVM @D2E_Project
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📑 Our second #PolicyBrief is out! The paper presents key insights on safeguarding lives, livelihoods, and infrastructure through enhanced #flood early warning systems in the #HornofAfrica. Read and download ➡️ https://t.co/JJeYxKWspb
#CONFER #EarlyWarning4All #ClimateActionNow
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Huge congratulations to Down2Earth PhD @TimBusker for winning the OSPP Award at EGU23! 🎉
Excited to share that we won the OSPP Award at EGU23 for our presentation on #drought in East Africa🌍. We show how optimized early action can considerably reduce drought impacts. https://t.co/D0SiKELpRa
@D2E_Project @VU_IVM @VU_Science
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This week @cardiffuni and @BristolUni and @icpac_igad are organising a hydrological modelling #CUWALID training under @D2E_Project. The training aims at building the capacity of key ICPAC's staff on the application of CUWALID model,and is taking place at University of Bristol,UK.
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Today we attended the 1st day of the GA of the @D2E_Project where science meets policy and action for better #EW for the Horn of Africa drylands. @_kmichaelides @_blissville @FAOSomalia @FAOSWALIM
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It was a very productive week long workshop with @D2E_Project consortium, including @icpac_igad, @cardiffuni @BristolUniWater and many other, looking at how we can implemebt the science-policy nexus in the Horn of #Africa #Drylands. More to come! @FAOSWALIM @FAOSomalia @ihedelft
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📸ℹ️ Our media training for journalists in #Hargeisa is officially underway! Journalists drawn from several media outlets in the region are showcasing their remarkable work on #climatechange reporting, offering deep insights into their dedicated efforts to covering "the
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👨🏾💻📻📺🎙️ ICPAC, alongside @D2E_Project, @MeteoKenya, @WRA_KEN, @CA_Latest, and @ActionAid, is presently hosting a comprehensive three-day capacity development and engagements forum between media professionals and climate scientists in Isiolo, #Kenya. The workshop's overarching
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🌍 Don't miss out on our upcoming webinar! 📢 Learn more about #ElNiño and #LaNiña phenomena, and how they shape #weather patterns in the East and Southern Africa region🌊🌞🌧️ 1/2 🗓️July 26, 2023 ⏰ 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EAT) 🔗Register ➡️ https://t.co/9vT9DIipFX
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Come and work with us on the D2E Project! Details here:
Are you an ecohydrological modeller looking for a postdoctoral position? If so, come and work with us at @CU_EARTH on an exciting project https://t.co/f5zYykrsZr with @_blissville @_kmichaelides @icpac_igad - job application details here:
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📰 November 2022, the FOCUS-Africa project, @D2E_Project & @ConferEU, hold two side events at #COP27. Showing project outputs and practical examples of how #ClimateServices are being used for resilience and adaptation in different sectors. Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/6TA8cYpZIl
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Our paper on a new stochastic potential evapotranspiration generator is out. Read more from the link. @_kmichaelides @_blissville @davemacleod111 @rosolemh2o @markocuthbert @QuichimboEA @D2E_Project
gmd.copernicus.org
Abstract. Potential evapotranspiration (PET) represents the evaporative demand in the atmosphere for the removal of water from the land and is an essential variable for understanding and modelling...
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One of the contributors, @rhodaodongo discusses the drought #propagation & #impacts and links this to her research in the Horn of Africa in @D2E_Project. [1/10]
Putting the 2022 #drought in the Netherlands in perspective. A new blog by the @VU_IVM drought research group: https://t.co/WuHYZAs9L5 What were the propagation processes, impacts, adaptation measures, communication, and is it over yet? And what can our research contribute?
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Today #COP27,DOWN2EARTH, CONFER, and FOCUS-Africa, organised the 2nd side event, shared experiences on models, climate projections and improve forecasting skill to support decision making for adaptation across region. #COP27 @icpac_igad, @D2E_project, @ConferEU, @FocusAFRICA_EU
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Want to hear about #climatechange from those who are experiencing the impacts, on the ground in #EastAfrica? Check out the new @bbcmediaaction podcast series! Was great to hear more about it at the @ConferEU, @FocusAFRICA_EU & @D2E_Project #COP27 event this morning.
NEW PODCAST: Living Climate Change Africa is out now! Listen here: https://t.co/5lDPeemySr
#COP27 #LivingClimateChangeAfrica #RaceToResilience #ClimateAction
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