Promoting Adaptation to Climate Change by Reducing Weather and Climate-Related Losses through Improved Services in Sudan (FISU)

Research summary

In this project FMI contributes to the
• Restructuring of the observation network
• Renewal of the telecommunication system both in national and international level
• Modernization of the climate database management system and
• Wider dissemination of meteorological data.

Description

The investment made for the rehabilitation of SMA’s observational network will be supported by human capacity building with a training program. The training will include both workshops and hands-on training. The training will be carried out by FMI experts’ missions to Sudan and by SMA experts’ study visits to Finland. The training will include following topics:
• Maintenance of observation network and modern meteorological instruments
• Data collection, QA/QC and database management
• Mobile weather services and weather services in Internet
• IT and application of new software

Research info

Research title
Promoting Adaptation to Climate Change by Reducing Weather and Climate-Related Losses through Improved Services in Sudan (FISU)

Research timeline
1.9.2011 - 1.12.2014

Keywords
capacity building Meteorology

Region
Africa

Countries
Finland, Sudan

Institution
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Helsinki, Finland

Funding instrument
Ministry for Foreign Affairs (ICI, HEI-ICI, N-S-S), Business Finland

Head of research
Alessandro Chiariello

Partners
Sudan Meteorological Authority (SMA)

Contact information
Antti Hyvärinen
+358405152004
antti.hyvarinen@fmi.fi

Record last updated
18.10.2016