Document Type

Report

Publication Date

9-2020

Abstract

Precipitation can have adverse effects on the climate ecosystem. Too much can impose concerns such as flooding and landslides, resulting in damaged property, agricultural losses, and loss of life. Too little, and drought becomes an issue, inducing wildfires, poor air quality, agricultural losses, and health degradation. While much work has been performed on historical and projected analysis of heavy precipitation, few interactive visualizations exist for end-users to better understand local impacts. The goal of this project is to create a visualization tool that easily demonstrates how precipitation extremes have changed and might change in the future for Sub-Saharan Africa. This visualization would be advantageous to various users such as environmental scientists as well as regular residents of the respective areas. It would also be beneficial to students who would be further interested in doing research based on climate. For research on climate, precipitation is one of the essential terms for equalizing the energy budget, and one among the primary challenging traits of in the realm of climate modeling.

Comments

This research has been supported by the a grant from PSEG ISS (Public Service Enterprise Group Institute for Sustainability Studies) at Montclair State University. Grant Topic: Development and web-based dissemination of high-resolution distributed hydrological information for promoting sustainable water management.

Published Citation

Karthikeyan, D., Varde, A., & Alo, C. (2020). Dissemination and visualization of hydro-climate data in Sub-Saharan Africa for analysis of climatic parameters. Technical Report, Montclair State University.

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