CUWALID Modeling System
This is a website surrounding all components of the CUWALID Climate and Water forecasting system, including information about the models, tutorials and details relating to the WujihaCast Telegram app.
Down2Earth project
DOWN2EARTH assembles a multidisciplinary project team, composed of experts and specialists in social science, rural development, media communication, climate science, meteorology, environment, hydrology, policy analysis, GIS, remote sensing, computer science, decision-support, modelling, and dryland processes. Below is a description of our project organization and a list of consortium institutions.
Partners
Our project is supported by a range of institutions and organizations.
Aalborg University
Addis Ababa University
ActionAid
BBC Media Action
Climate Analytics
Cardiff University
FAO SWALIM
IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC)
Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM-VU)
OSSREA
Transparency Solutions
University of East Anglia
Ghent University
University of Bristol
University of Nairobi
Funding and Support
The CUWALID system and its research have been supported by multiple organizations and funding bodies.
Acknowledgments
- E. Andrés Quichimbo received financial support from Cardiff University through a Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship, Cardiff-UKRI-EPSRC.
- Mark O. Cuthbert acknowledges funding for an Independent Research Fellowship from the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NE/P017819/1).
- Michael Bliss Singer has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (BCS-1660490 and EAR-1700517) and the U.S. Department of Defense (RC18-1006).
- The team has been supported by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), The Royal Society (DRIER, CHL\R1\180485), and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme (DOWN2EARTH, grant no. 869550).