BLOGS
The importance of free and open data for weather, water and climate
28 January, 2025
Data (and access to data) is becoming more and more important in our information society, especially with the increased use of artificial intelligence and machine learning. You can write a book about it, but the short version is that we need this data to effectively tackle…
Understanding river discharge to estimate landscape responses
6 December, 2024
Understanding river discharge is essential to estimating landscape responses to rainfall and other climatic driving forces, planning infrastructure, predicting floods and droughts, and assessing ecosystem conditions. Discharge measurements in Africa are scarce.
Modular Flood Early Warning System an Approach to Flood Adaptation
22 November, 2024
One major impact of climate change is the ever-increasing frequency of foods events as a result of deep convective storms exacerbated by the increase in global surface temperature. Therefore, flood early warning system (FEWS) is critical tool in safeguarding life and protection…
Flow measurements at the Lunsemfwa Hydropower station...
26 March, 2024
One lego component of the TEMBO project is to develop transformative camera-based river discharge measurements that are non-contact, cost effective, easily maintained, deployed, and adapted to local context in Africa. o this end SEBA DischargeKeeper (TRL 9)…
Flood Early Warning System (FEWS) for Narok County in Kenya...
21 August, 2023
Frequent flooding is one of the consequences of the changing climate that is affecting most communities in Sub-Sahara Africa. When it rains it pours, and Narok County in the Southern parts of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya is a good example.
The Transformative Role of TAHMO in Empowering TEMBO Africa
21 June 2023
In an era of rapid climate change and its far-reaching impacts, the need for accurate weather and climate data has become increasingly vital for communities, policymakers, and researchers alike. In Africa, where vulnerable populations are…
25 September 2023
One of our approaches for river monitoring in the TEMBO project includes image velocimetry using OpenRiverCam for river velocity estimation, dry bed bathymetry using photogrammetry in OpenDroneMap, and wet bed bathymetry using sonar via a fish finder. Work to date has piloted this approach at three locations in Ghana within the Black Volta Basin. Some visualization of this work is available in this preliminary video introducing the work.
