Project SASSCAL
SASSCAL is a joint initiative of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Germany, responding to the challenges of global change. The establishment of a Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL) creates added value for the whole southern African region. Its mission is to conduct problem-oriented research in the area of adaptation to climate change and sustainable land management and provide evidence-based advice for decision-makers and stakeholders to improve the livelihoods of people in the region and to contribute to the creation of an African knowledge-based society.
Key element of the GERICS activity in SASSCAL is capacity building. Training workshops on the application of the desktop version of REMO and on the analysis and interpretation of regional climate change projections with respect to uncertainty and robustness measures and will be conducted.
SASSCAL
Member countries: Angola, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Zambia
MoU GERICS-SASSCAL since October 2019
new project SASSCAL-TIPPECC (2022-2025, GERICS website in progress), project partners:
o University of Witwatersrand South Africa (coordinator)
o GERICS-Hereon
o Friedrich Schiller University Jena
o University of Zambia
o University of Botswana
o Gobabeb-Namib Research Institute Namibia
Publication
- Analyzing regional climate change in Africa in a 1.5, 2, and 3°C global warming world Weber, T., Haensler, A., Rechid, D., Pfeifer, S., Eggert, B., & Jacob, D. (2018). Earth’s Future, 6, 643–655. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017EF000714
Workshop in Stellenbosch / South Africa on 20th - 24th of February 2017
SASSCAL in detail Project Factsheet SASSCAL (969 KB)