Objectives To better understand variability in eastern upwelling regions and the Gulf of Guinea To enhance climate modelling and prediction capabilities Improve understanding of marine ecosystems for better prediction and management ID: 651658
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Enhancing Prediction of tropical Atlantic Climate & its impacts (PREFACE)
Objectives
To better understand variability in eastern upwelling regions and the Gulf of GuineaTo enhance climate modelling and prediction capabilitiesImprove understanding of marine ecosystems for better prediction and managementMethodologyEnhanced ocean observations and analysisExperimentation with climate models, including performing predictionsAnalysis and modelling of climatic impacts on marine ecosystems, and associated socio-economic impacts
Creating and consolidating an Atlantic European-African task force
Funded
by the European Union under FP7,GA n. 603521.
28 partners from 18
countries
2014-2017
www.preface-project.eu
CCLME
GCLME
BCLMESlide2
To improve climate prediction in the Tropical Atlantic to a level where socio-economic benefit can be realised, with focus on sustainable management of marine ecosystems and fisheries
PREFACE will deliver:
Recommendations for a sustainable long-term ocean monitoring system;Best practices for ocean and ocean-atmosphere coupled model simulations of Tropical Atlantic variability;Strategies for improved forecast quality of climate predictions and projections for the XX1 century;Guidance for the sustainable management
of marine ecosystems, through a deeper understanding of oceanographic mechanisms and variability affecting small scale fisheries and an improved understanding of the effect of uncertainty in projections for African-Atlantic fishing communities.
Enhancing Prediction of tropical Atlantic Climate & its impacts (PREFACE)
www.preface-project.eu
Forced
Ocean
models
Climate
/
Prediction
models
Evaluation of
climate models and
bias reduction
Impacts of
climate change on ecosystem
functioning and
fisheries in West Africa
The role of ocean processes in climate
variability
Prediction of
climate in the Tropical Atlantic
Impact
prediction
Ocean &
Ecosystem
data