MainDBDraft: RAINWATCH Handbook: A step by step guide to using RAINWATCH, version 1.0
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RAINWATCH Handbook: A step by step guide to using RAINWATCH, version 1.0
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Africa
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Academics and scientists; Communities; Policy makers; Practitioners; Private sector
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Date of submission:
17/05/2021
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The Walker Institute
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Rainwatch Alliance Countries: Uganda, Ghana, Malawi, Sudan, Nigeria, Mali, Chad, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Gambia, Senegal, Cote D'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau
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Geographic scope:
National
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Climate observations; Climate scenarios; Education and training; Institutional arrangements; Science and research; Technology support
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Community-based adaptation; Disaster risk reduction; Water resources
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Drought; Erratic rainfall; Floods; Shift of seasons
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Asare, Kofi, Cornforth, Rosalind Jane, Tarhule, Aondover, Osbahr, Henny, Ciampi, Luisa, & Myers, Jacob. (2019, August 12). RAINWATCH Handbook: A step by step guide to using RAINWATCH, version 1.0 (Version 1.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3366368 Available here: https://zenodo.org/record/3366368#.YKJ2oahKiUk
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Technical document/report
Description:
RAINWATCH, is an open-source, web-based GIS platform that provides rainfall data in near-real time from national weather stations and tracks the key seasonal characteristics, important for food production, health service response and social protection systems. It has been operating since 2009 in West Africa but is now developed and sustained through a continent-wide RAINWATCH Alliance - a partnership of more than 15 African National Hydro Meteorological Services (NHMS) networked together, as part of an African solution to build an effective climate service partnership on one platform working together with Government Agencies, NGOs and Research Institutions across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to build a climate resilient future for all. The overarching goal of the RAINWATCH Alliance is to encourage collaborative work on increasing the access to and the use of climate information services to enable better targeted decision making processes across a widerange of sectors, for example Agriculture, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Integrated Water Resource Management, Energy and Health. RAINWATCH is an open, free accessible Web-based tool available here: http://www.RAINWATCH-africa.org. You can alos download the RAINWACTH app from Apple and Android App stores - just search for RAINWATCH. This manual provides users with a step by step process of how to understadn and use the RAINWATCH web-based platform.
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Tool
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