Climate change has made weather patterns more difficult to predict and extreme events such as droughts and floods more frequent and severe. In this changing climate, accurate and local weather information is vital for decision-making and building resilience in local communities. Existing mobile network infrastructure can be used to provide high-resolution rain data using commercial microwave links (CML). This approach radically increases the number of observations available (e.g. 19.000 CMLs vs 50 weather stations in Nigeria) and has been shown to be in quality at the height of the s rain gauge and exceeds satellite rain data.
Read the report on current knowledge of the accuracy and coverage of CML rain data, the operational steps needed to develop CML data services, and the added value of CML data to climate resilience services.
hyds has collaborated in the drafting of the report and in the services associated with the exploitation of CML data.
