Mapping the Future of Climate Change in Africa

In his article Mapping the Future of Climate Change in Africa, Diego Cruz of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) discusses the tools developed by the CCAPS program to help vulnerable populations adapt to climate change and political instability. CCAPS researchers use the high-performance computing resources at TACC to run regional climate model simulations. The climate projections are generated using a regional climate model focused on Africa, allowing the researchers to optimize the model to be more accurate for the African continent than current global models and to produce projections at higher resolution.

Climate Projections for Africa

CCAPS researchers Kerry Cook and Ned Vizy have designed and run mid-century climate projection simulations for Africa. The climate projections are generated using a regional climate model focused on Africa, allowing the researchers to optimize the model to be more accurate for the African continent than current global models and to produce projections at higher resolution. The future simulations focus on the mid-century to better align with policy planning horizons.