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- Title
The Leeds Africa Climate Hackathon – experiences of running a hackathon and highlights of results.
- Authors
Crook, Julia; Marsham, John H.; Fitzpatrick, Rory; Aryee, Jeffrey N. A.; Baidu, Michael; Baker, Jessica C. A.; Bland, Sam; Chapman, Sarah; Denby, Leif; Hartley, Andrew; Kovacs, Eszter; Lam, Timothy; Morris, Fran; Mwanthi, Anthony; Owen, Laura; Peatman, Simon; Pickering, Ben; Sabiiti, Geoffrey; Wainwright, Caroline; Webb, Tom
- Abstract
However, due to late dropouts, the Ghana Cocoa team lost its African representative and a UK Post-Doctoral Research Associate, so was very unbalanced, and we ended up with the two Ghana teams merging into one larger-than-ideal team (GhanaAg team). The Leeds Africa Climate Hackathon aimed to generate user-relevant narratives of possible future climate in East and West Africa relevant to hydroelectric power generation and agriculture respectively. Analysis of CMIP5 models suggests West Africa will see shorter wet seasons, increasing rainfall intensity, and decreasing rainfall frequency under climate change (Dunning I et al i ., [6]). The team hypothesised that the dam would not be able to retain these higher intensity rains and would have to release them downstream, which in turn could increase periods when dam levels were low even if decadal rainfall were similar to today.
- Subjects
DROUGHTS; HEAT waves (Meteorology); SCIENTIFIC communication; GREENHOUSE gas mitigation; PHYSICAL sciences
- Publication
Weather (00431656), 2023, Vol 78, Issue 2, p36
- ISSN
0043-1656
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/wea.4246