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White-Sky Albedo, West Africa, 2000-2014

    White-sky broadband albedo, based on the MODIS MCD43B3 product for West Africa from 2000 to 2014. The MODIS standard dataset has been enhanced by data quality assessment, gap filling and temporal filtering of the layer Albedo_WSA_Band_shortwave....

    Fractional Vegetation Cover, West Africa, 2007-2012

      Time series of fractional vegetation cover (fCover) information for West Africa. The regionally adapted, continuous, and gap free time series has been created by data fusion methods based on fCover products of LSA-SAF (http://landsaf.meteo.pt/)...

      Leaf Area Index, West Africa, 2007-2012

        These datasets show the leaf area index (LAI), the one-sided area of green leaves per unit ground area for West Africa from 2007 to 2012. The regionally adapted, continuous, and gap free time series has been created by data fusion methods based...

        Cereal banks in The Gambia – a case study

          During the 1970s, when severe droughts affected West African farmers, cereal banks became popular in the region. However, things quickly became very quiet again about this type of food security scheme, probably also because many of the cereal...

          WASCAL Data Sharing Policies

          WASCAL CoC,WASCAL Observation Networks (WAS-ONs),WASCAL Data Management,Open Data

            Sharing research data strengthens open scientific culture and collaboration, fosters diversity of research analyses, inspires new research horizons, helps envisage new or alternative hypotheses and methods, allows the exploration of new research...

            Bakadagi-18: WASCAL Donated Automatic Weather Station in Gambia

            WASCAL CoC,WASCAL Data Management,WASCAL Observation Networks (WAS-ONs)

              This is a BMBF funded Automatic Weather Station (AWS) donated by WASCAL to Burkina Faso to strengthen the climate observatories of the member countries, co-develop together a regional/transboundary observation network to ultimately contribute to...