The Impacts of Climate Change on Regional Water Resources and Agriculture in Africa
This paper summarizes the methods and findings of the hydrological assessment component of the project studying likely impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in Africa. The first phase of the study used a version of a conceptual rainfall-runoff model called WatBal (Water Balanc...
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ftworldbank:oai:openknowledge.worldbank.org:10986/7479 2024-09-09T19:04:15+00:00 The Impacts of Climate Change on Regional Water Resources and Agriculture in Africa Strzepek, Kenneth McCluskey, Alyssa 2007-07 application/pdf text/plain https://hdl.handle.net/10986/7479 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/07/8003673/impacts-climate-change-regional-water-resources-agriculture-africa English eng World Bank, Washington, DC Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4290 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/07/8003673/impacts-climate-change-regional-water-resources-agriculture-africa https://hdl.handle.net/10986/7479 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank AGRICULTURE ANNUAL RUNOFF ANTARCTICA ARID AREAS BASINS BIOSPHERE CASE STUDIES CATCHMENT CLASSIFICATION CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH CLIMATE CHANGES CLIMATE IMPACTS CLIMATE MODELS CLIMATE RESEARCH CLIMATE RESEARCH UNIT CLIMATE SENSITIVITY CLIMATE VARIABILITY CLIMATE VARIABLES CLIMATES CLIMATIC CONDITIONS CLIMATOLOGY CLOUD COVER CLOUDINESS CONSTRUCTION COVERING CROPLAND CROPS CRU DATA QUALITY DATA SOURCES DESERTS DISCHARGE DRAINAGE DRAINAGE NETWORK ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ECOSYSTEMS EMISSIONS ENVIRONMENTS EVAPORATION EVAPOTRANSPIRATION FLOW REGIMES FOOD PRODUCTION FOREST FORESTRY FORESTS GCM GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOSPHERE 2007 ftworldbank 2024-08-13T00:17:26Z This paper summarizes the methods and findings of the hydrological assessment component of the project studying likely impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in Africa. The first phase of the study used a version of a conceptual rainfall-runoff model called WatBal (Water Balance) applied to gridded data to simulate changes in soil moisture and runoff across the whole continent of Africa rather than to any particular catchment or water resource system. The model inputs were the climate variables of the 1961-90 climatology and physiological parameters (such as soil properties and land use) derived from global datasets for each of the 0.5 degree latitude/longitude cells across the continent. The primary model output comprised a time series (monthly time step) of simulated runoff for all the grid cells for each of the districts in the countries of interest. The second phase of the study extended the hydrology analyses to update the above hydroclimatic series to the year 2000 using updated input data. To ascertain the possible impacts of climate change within the districts being investigated this study used synthetic or GCM-based climate change scenarios as input to the WatBal model. The WatBal model was used to determine the impact of these different scenarios on runoff and actual evaporation and hence flow in the districts under study. The generated hydroclimatic series and scenario analyses were used as inputs into various Ricardian regressions in other analyses measuring likely impacts of climate change on the agricultural economies of Africa. Other/Unknown Material Antarc* Antarctica The World Bank: Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) |
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AGRICULTURE ANNUAL RUNOFF ANTARCTICA ARID AREAS BASINS BIOSPHERE CASE STUDIES CATCHMENT CLASSIFICATION CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH CLIMATE CHANGES CLIMATE IMPACTS CLIMATE MODELS CLIMATE RESEARCH CLIMATE RESEARCH UNIT CLIMATE SENSITIVITY CLIMATE VARIABILITY CLIMATE VARIABLES CLIMATES CLIMATIC CONDITIONS CLIMATOLOGY CLOUD COVER CLOUDINESS CONSTRUCTION COVERING CROPLAND CROPS CRU DATA QUALITY DATA SOURCES DESERTS DISCHARGE DRAINAGE DRAINAGE NETWORK ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ECOSYSTEMS EMISSIONS ENVIRONMENTS EVAPORATION EVAPOTRANSPIRATION FLOW REGIMES FOOD PRODUCTION FOREST FORESTRY FORESTS GCM GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOSPHERE |
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AGRICULTURE ANNUAL RUNOFF ANTARCTICA ARID AREAS BASINS BIOSPHERE CASE STUDIES CATCHMENT CLASSIFICATION CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH CLIMATE CHANGES CLIMATE IMPACTS CLIMATE MODELS CLIMATE RESEARCH CLIMATE RESEARCH UNIT CLIMATE SENSITIVITY CLIMATE VARIABILITY CLIMATE VARIABLES CLIMATES CLIMATIC CONDITIONS CLIMATOLOGY CLOUD COVER CLOUDINESS CONSTRUCTION COVERING CROPLAND CROPS CRU DATA QUALITY DATA SOURCES DESERTS DISCHARGE DRAINAGE DRAINAGE NETWORK ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ECOSYSTEMS EMISSIONS ENVIRONMENTS EVAPORATION EVAPOTRANSPIRATION FLOW REGIMES FOOD PRODUCTION FOREST FORESTRY FORESTS GCM GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOSPHERE Strzepek, Kenneth McCluskey, Alyssa The Impacts of Climate Change on Regional Water Resources and Agriculture in Africa |
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AGRICULTURE ANNUAL RUNOFF ANTARCTICA ARID AREAS BASINS BIOSPHERE CASE STUDIES CATCHMENT CLASSIFICATION CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH CLIMATE CHANGES CLIMATE IMPACTS CLIMATE MODELS CLIMATE RESEARCH CLIMATE RESEARCH UNIT CLIMATE SENSITIVITY CLIMATE VARIABILITY CLIMATE VARIABLES CLIMATES CLIMATIC CONDITIONS CLIMATOLOGY CLOUD COVER CLOUDINESS CONSTRUCTION COVERING CROPLAND CROPS CRU DATA QUALITY DATA SOURCES DESERTS DISCHARGE DRAINAGE DRAINAGE NETWORK ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ECOSYSTEMS EMISSIONS ENVIRONMENTS EVAPORATION EVAPOTRANSPIRATION FLOW REGIMES FOOD PRODUCTION FOREST FORESTRY FORESTS GCM GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOSPHERE |
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This paper summarizes the methods and findings of the hydrological assessment component of the project studying likely impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in Africa. The first phase of the study used a version of a conceptual rainfall-runoff model called WatBal (Water Balance) applied to gridded data to simulate changes in soil moisture and runoff across the whole continent of Africa rather than to any particular catchment or water resource system. The model inputs were the climate variables of the 1961-90 climatology and physiological parameters (such as soil properties and land use) derived from global datasets for each of the 0.5 degree latitude/longitude cells across the continent. The primary model output comprised a time series (monthly time step) of simulated runoff for all the grid cells for each of the districts in the countries of interest. The second phase of the study extended the hydrology analyses to update the above hydroclimatic series to the year 2000 using updated input data. To ascertain the possible impacts of climate change within the districts being investigated this study used synthetic or GCM-based climate change scenarios as input to the WatBal model. The WatBal model was used to determine the impact of these different scenarios on runoff and actual evaporation and hence flow in the districts under study. The generated hydroclimatic series and scenario analyses were used as inputs into various Ricardian regressions in other analyses measuring likely impacts of climate change on the agricultural economies of Africa. |
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Strzepek, Kenneth McCluskey, Alyssa |
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Strzepek, Kenneth McCluskey, Alyssa |
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The Impacts of Climate Change on Regional Water Resources and Agriculture in Africa |
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The Impacts of Climate Change on Regional Water Resources and Agriculture in Africa |
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The Impacts of Climate Change on Regional Water Resources and Agriculture in Africa |
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The Impacts of Climate Change on Regional Water Resources and Agriculture in Africa |
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The Impacts of Climate Change on Regional Water Resources and Agriculture in Africa |
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impacts of climate change on regional water resources and agriculture in africa |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2007 |
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https://hdl.handle.net/10986/7479 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/07/8003673/impacts-climate-change-regional-water-resources-agriculture-africa |
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Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4290 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/07/8003673/impacts-climate-change-regional-water-resources-agriculture-africa https://hdl.handle.net/10986/7479 |
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