The WASCAL high-resolution regional climate simulation ensemble for West Africa: concept, dissemination and assessment

Heinzeller, Dominikus; Dieng, Diarra; Smiatek, Gerhard; Olusegun, Christiana; Klein, Cornelia; Hamann, Ilse; Salack, Seyni; Bliefernicht, Jan; Kunstmann, Harald

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-815-2018

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-815-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-815-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

23 Apr 2018

| 23 Apr 2018

The WASCAL high-resolution regional climate simulation ensemble for West Africa: concept, dissemination and assessment

Dominikus Heinzeller, Diarra Dieng, Gerhard Smiatek, Christiana Olusegun, Cornelia Klein, Ilse Hamann, Seyni Salack, Jan Bliefernicht, and Harald Kunstmann

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Final revised paper (published on 23 Apr 2018)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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EC1: 'Regional climate products in ESSD', David Carlson, 25 Sep 2017
- RC1: 'Review Paper:The WASCAL high-resolution regional climate simulation ensemble for West Africa: concept, dissemination, assessment', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 Jan 2018
  - AC1: 'Authors' response to comment of anonymous referee #1', Dom Heinzeller, 30 Jan 2018
RC2: 'Review ESSD-2017-93 WASCAL', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Feb 2018

Short summary

Climate change and population growth pose severe challenges to 21st century rural Africa. Within the framework of the West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), an ensemble of high-resolution regional climate change simulations is provided to support adaptation and mitigation measures. This contribution presents the concept and design of the simulations and provides information on the format and dissemination of the available data.