Title : ( Promoting Water and Climate Education through the Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory )
Authors: FRANK OHENE ANNOR , Ali Abbasi , NICK VAN DE GIESEN , JOHN SELKER , ELIZABETH JACHENS , ELLEN VAN ANDEL , FRISO VOS DE WAEL , MOJTABA SHAFIEI ,
Full TextAbstract
The Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO) is a Non-Governmental Organisation and together with National Meteorological Agencies aim at installing 20,000 Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) across Sub-Saharan Africa. This is to support the Meteorological Agencies improve climate and weather services in these countries. TAHMO is an initiative with three main components: i) Designing robust and cost effective automatic weather stations; ii) Educating students in high schools, polytechnics and universities; and iii) Developing business plans to sustain the operations and maintenance of the stations. This paper presents the component on water and climate education across Sub-Saharan Africa and lessons that could be drawn to promote this in other parts of the world.
Keywords
, The Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO), School2School, Weather station, Climate Eduation
@inproceedings{paperid:1070152,
author = {FRANK OHENE ANNOR and Abbasi, Ali and NICK VAN DE GIESEN and JOHN SELKER and ELIZABETH JACHENS and ELLEN VAN ANDEL and FRISO VOS DE WAEL and MOJTABA SHAFIEI},
title = {Promoting Water and Climate Education through the Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory},
booktitle = {The International Conference on Water and Environment in the New Millennium: Education and Capacity Building (WENM2016)},
year = {2016},
location = {تهران, IRAN},
keywords = {The Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO); School2School;Weather station; Climate Eduation},
}
%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Promoting Water and Climate Education through the Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory
%A FRANK OHENE ANNOR
%A Abbasi, Ali
%A NICK VAN DE GIESEN
%A JOHN SELKER
%A ELIZABETH JACHENS
%A ELLEN VAN ANDEL
%A FRISO VOS DE WAEL
%A MOJTABA SHAFIEI
%J The International Conference on Water and Environment in the New Millennium: Education and Capacity Building (WENM2016)
%D 2016
