Researchers on the “Present and Future Dangers of City and Rural Flooding in West Africa” (FURIFLOOD) undertaking are growing a guidebook on ecosystem-based flood risk-reduction measures in West Africa.
The e book which is in its draft stage particulars flood threat and its parts and offers a complete evaluation of how ecosystem-based catastrophe threat administration might cut back flood.
A principal Investigator of the undertaking, Professor Dr. Andreas Fink of the Karlsruhe Institute of Expertise, indicated that the e book which highlights early warnings and emergency administration methods will turn out to be useful for stakeholders such because the meteorological businesses and Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Group (NADMO).
The FURIFLOOD Mission goals to generate scientific information relating to local weather drivers of present and future excessive occasions associated to flooding in West Africa and combine this with case research to raised perceive dangers and impacts.
The West African Science Service Heart on Local weather Change and Tailored Land Use (WASCAL) is executing the four-year undertaking, which began in August 2021 and is anticipated to finish in July 2024.
Prof. Dr. Fink additional revealed the undertaking has developed a two-dimensional hydrodynamic modelling with a river evaluation system to stimulate flood eventualities.
“Giant efforts had been undertaken to achieve info on parameters resembling flood depths recorded by inhabitants to calibrate and validate fashions.
“These analyses would assist determine which magnitudes of hazard had been susceptible to turn into a extreme threat for the inhabitants round streams in Kumasi,” he defined.
By the undertaking, the researchers have efficiently changed out of date rain gauge instrumentation at 10 stations within the Ashanti Area with KNUST technicians additionally designing a brand new logger to alleviate challenges in defective unique information loggers.
The Faculty of Science of the Kwame Nkrumah College of Science and Expertise (KNUST) is internet hosting the undertaking in Ghana.
Co-Principal Investigator and Provost of the Faculty of Science, KNUST, Prof. Leonard Amekudzi, lauded the multidisciplinary nature of the undertaking and believed it could be instrumental in lessening flash flooding within the sub-region.
“KNUST was tasked to analyze the intense rainfall, decreasing floods, and start to consider growing a revised intensive length curve for not solely the Ashanti Area however the complete nation and full West Africa,” he’s optimistic.
The Professional Vice-Chancellor of KNUST, Prof. Ellis Owusu-Dabo was comfortable the undertaking has proffered options to the flood menace within the nation.
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