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Climate Change Resilience

Title: Africa Regional Centres of Excellence - ArcX: Climate Change Resilience.

Main Objective: Strengthen the climate change and disaster resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa, by improving scientific and technological capacities of the Regional Centers of Excellence, their co-ordination and capacity to contribute to policy and decision making.

Starting Year: 2026
Implementation Duration: 48 Months

Areas of Impact: Still to be defined

Target Groups: Still to be defined

ArcX Partners: Still to be defined

Component Coordinator: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) - pending contract signature.

Leading Regional Centre of Excellence (RCoE): 

Scientific and Technical Support from EC - DG JRC: JRC Unit D6 (Nature Conservation and Observations); JRC Unit E1 (Disaster Risk Management).

Available Resources
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Climate-Vegetation trends (areas of concern)
Changes in vegetation biomass are critical in assessing land degradation. Climate variations, alone or in combination with human-induced land use and land change, can affect biomass productivity and m...
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Fires (areas of concern)
Fire is a natural part of all ecosystems. Wildfires have been burning vegetation and shaping landscapes far longer than people have been on Earth. However, changes in fire frequency and timing can res...
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Water stress (areas of concern)
Water is a critical natural resource for both natural ecosystems and human subsistence. Some of the most immediate pressures on land that lead to degradation include diversion of surface waters and th...
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Aridity (areas of concern)
Aridity represents the ‘dryness’ of the climate. Dry areas have a higher potential for land degradation. This layer displays the areas of concern for aridity related issues derived from the convergenc...
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Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-3)
Droughts affect millions of people in the world each year and have long-lasting socioeconomic impacts. They can occur over most parts of the world, even in wet and humid regions, and can profoundly im...
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Active Fire anomaly from MODIS/FIRMS
Vegetation fires have become a major concern in Africa because of their negative impacts on the environment and on human welfare. Uncontrolled (and un-prescribed) wildfires cause forest and vegetation...
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MODIS Sea Surface Temperature (SST) monthly anomaly
Monitoring of sea surface temperature (SST) provides fundamental information on the global climate system and for the study of marine ecosystems. This layer compares the SST value of the last full mon...
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MODIS Chlorophylle-A monthly anomaly
Chlorophyll-a concentrations (Chla) are an indicator of phytoplankton abundance and biomass in open waters. They can be an effective measure of trophic status and are commonly used to measure water qu...
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Monthly Precipitation Anomaly from CHIRPS (mm)
Increasing water scarcity and water quality issues are serious constraints in Africa and worldwide. Measuring precipitation anomalies is important for detecting and characterizing meteorological droug...
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Effective Leaf Area Index
This layer provides the Effective Leaf Area Index (LAIe), a critical parameter for modeling evapotranspiration and carbon fluxes between the biosphere and the atmosphere. Monitoring the dis...
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Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation - Anomalies
The Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Absorbed (FAPAR) is used to track the overall primary productivity associated with atmospheric CO2 fixation. FAPAR anomalies relative to the average...
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Effective Leaf Area Index - Anomalies
This layer presents the Effective Leaf Area Index (LAIe) Anomalies, representing the deviation of current vegetation density from the historical average. Monitoring the change of LAI i...
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Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation
The Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) is an Essential Climate Variable that serves as an integrated indicator of the status and health of plant canopies. FAPAR plays a c...
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Land Productivity Dynamics in Sahel
Humans need increasingly more biomass for food, fodder, fiber and energy. In Africa, circa 22% of the vegetated land surface showed a decline or unstable land productivity between 1999 and 2013. Persi...
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Pollination Risk
This indicator assesses whether there is enough natural habitat surrounding cropland to support natural pollination. Up to two-thirds of all crops require some degree of animal pollination to reach th...
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