MainDBDraft: u-CLIP - Urban Climate Information Platform for Niamey
Title:
u-CLIP - Urban Climate Information Platform for Niamey
Geographic region:
Africa
Target group:
Academics and scientists; Communities; Policy makers; Practitioners; Private sector
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Date of submission:
20/04/2021
Further information:
The u-CLIP project is supported by the Wehubit programme ('digital for development', see https://www.wehubit.be/en), implemented by Enabel, the Belgian development agency.
NWPPartner:
Flemish Institute for Technological Research
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Geographic scope:
Local
Adaptation element:
Climate observations; Climate scenarios; Communication and outreach/awareness; Education and training; Impact assessment; Stakeholder involvement; Vulnerability assessment
Adaptation sector/theme:
Adaptation finance; Community-based adaptation; Ecosystem-based adaptation; Energy; Health; Infrastructure; Services; Urban resilience
Climate hazard:
Extreme heat
Implementing partners:
VITO - Flemish Institute for Technological Research ACMAD - African Centre for Meteorological Applications for Development Associate partner: City of Niamey
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Abbreviation:
VITO
Weblink:
https://vito.be/en/application-area/climate-adaptation
Type of organization:
Research institution
NWPUserTitle:
Mr.
NWPName:
Koen
NWPSurname:
De Ridder
Job title:
Sr Researcher
NWPStreet:
Boeretang 200, 2400 Mol
NWPZip:
2400
Country:
Niger
NWPTel:
+3214336751
NWPPrimaryEmail:
koen.deridder@vito.be
NWPSecendaryEmail:
koen.deridder@vito.be
NWPGPLL:
The project is ongoing (April 2021 - March 2023), hence 'lessons learned' will be shared at a later stage.
References NWP:
https://www.wehubit.be/sites/default/files/2021-04/21%20VITO_FINAL_0.pdf
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NWPTypeOfKnowledge:
Technical document/report
Description:
The u-CLIP project strives to contribute to strengthening the resilience of African cities to climate change impacts. More specifically, the project aims to (1) the establishment of an open web-based urban climate change information (u-CLIP) platform for Niamey, tailored to suit the needs of local stakeholders and focusing on extreme heat; (2) the uptake of the u-CLIP platform by local actors and the formulation of measures to enhance Niamey’s resilience with respect to the projected impacts of climate change; (3) a plan to achieve a massive upscaling of the u-CLIP platform to cities across the African continent.
Outcome:
The main expected outcome of the project consists of the u-CLIP platform (web dashboard), and a demonstration of its use to support concrete urban resilience measures for Niamey. The platform will provide historic data and future climate projections (horizons 2030, 2050, 2100), downscaled from data contained in the Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS) and other sources such as CORDEX-Africa. Apart from basic climate data, the platform will contain derived sectoral climate indicators, such as health indices (number of heatwave days) or indices for the energy sector (degree days), as well as true impact indicators such as excess mortality or cooling energy requirements. The ambition is to achieve a downscaling to a fine spatial resolution where individual buildings and green elements (trees) can be distinguished. While in the u-CLIP project the emphasis will be on extreme heat, the intention is to later expand the platform to include the impact of climate change on floods and drought, among other. Urban climate downscaling will be achieved by means of VITO’s UrbClim model, which dynamically downscales large-scale climate fields, accounting for fine-grained land cover characteristics from satellite imagery and open data sources (OpenStreetMaps, Google Earth). When downscaling future climate, we will consider urban growth scenarios, employing VITO’s GeoDynamix approach to do so. The technology underpinning the proposed platform is unique in its capacity to conduct long-term climate simulations at high spatial resolution while accounting for future urban growth scenarios. Also, the provision of the resulting data as sector-specific indicators that can be dynamically queried through a dedicated dashboard is new. The downscaled urban climate maps will be complemented with measurements of the wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT), which is a measure for human heat stress. Measurements will be gathered during the course of dedicated campaigns, involving citizens and local organisations to actually collect those measurements along pre-defined trajectories, sampling a variety of urban environments (sunny open spaces, tree shading, …). We will make use of concurrent WBGT and GPS trajectory information (using smartphones) to geolocate the heat stress data on a map and thus allow its inclusion in the platform. The main intended use of the platform is to quantitatively support decision-making related to urban climate resilience measures. For example, it will allow to locate 'hot spots' of extreme heat in the city, and to estimate the impact of certain measures (e.g. tree planting) on human exposure to heat. In addition, the u-CLIP platform will constitute a valuable tool to support the establishment of substantiated applications to international climate funds. While u-CLIP will initially focus on demonstrating the urban climate information platform for Niamey, it is our firm ambition to prepare, during the project’s later stages, a substantial upscaling towards other cities across the African continent.
NWPInformationType:
Case study
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