Nowcasting for Africa: advances, potential and value

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The high frequency of intense convective storms means there is a great demand to improve predictions of high‐impact weather across Africa. The low skill of numerical weather prediction over Africa, even for short lead times highlights the need to deliver nowcasting based on satellite data. The Global Challenges Research Fund African SWIFT (Science for Weather Information and Forecasting Techniques) project is working to improve the nowcasting of African convective systems and so the ability to provide timely warnings.

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Authors/Creators:	This paper has 22 authors. You can scroll the list below to see them all or them all. Roberts, AJ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4970-9032 Fletcher, JK Groves, J https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7073-2085 Marsham, JH https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3219-8472 Parker, DJ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2335-8198 Blyth, AM https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7115-2587 Adefisan, EA Ajayi, VO Barrette, R de Coning, E Dione, C Diop, A Foamouhoue, AK Gijben, M Hill, PG Lawal, KA Mutemi, J Padi, M Popoola, TI Rípodas, P Stein, THM Woodhams, BJ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2070-8279
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2021 The Authors. Weather published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of the Royal Meteorological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Keywords:	nowcasting; Africa; satellite; NWC SAF; GCRF African SWIFT
Dates:	Published: July 2022 Published (online): 23 March 2021 Accepted: 26 January 2021
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Inst for Climate & Atmos Science (ICAS) (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > National Centre for Atmos Science (NCAS) (Leeds)
Funding Information:	Funder Grant number NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) NE/P021077/1 NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) Not Known Met Office No External Reference
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	31 Mar 2021 13:49
Last Modified:	25 Jun 2023 22:37
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Wiley
Identification Number:	10.1002/wea.3936
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:172719

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