Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL)

Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) was a four year project within the multi-consortia Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) programme. The project addressed the challenge of providing accessible, timely, applicable and defensible climate information that is needed by decision Last updated:

Cruise report from R/V Svea week 11-12, 2022

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distributed throughout the well mixed surface layer, then rapidly decreasing below the thermocline. Low nutrient concentrations indicated that a phytoplankton bloom had happened in the southern Baltic Proper but it was nothing that could be seen in the fluorescence data. Last updated:

Nowcasting SAF - Retrieving Cloud Top Temperature and Height in Semi-transparent and Fractional Cloudiness using AVHRR.

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file are used to locate the required input data files. During the processing the routine steps through the image area by segment- ing it into image segments of specified size. Based on the cloud classifica- tion, the pixels in a given segment are provided to the model fitting routine if they are either Last updated:

Algae report number 8, 2022

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Dinophysis acuminata* och celler av ordern Prymnesiales*. De integrerade klorofyllvärdena (0–10 m) var under det normala vid BY15, i övrigt inom det normala för månaden. Abstract The phytoplankton diversity and total cell counts were low in the Kattegat and Skagerrak areas, except at Släggö where the Last updated:

International Development Cooperation-Moldova Inception phase

By entering an international development cooperation with SMHI, SHS hopes to strengthen their institutional sustainability as well as develop their capacity within NMHS for the provision of improved key services to the public. The inception phase aimed to assess the current status of operational Last updated:

Climate Change Training Programme kicks off in Mozambique

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The group discussions and the high level of knowledge the participants themselves possess in the field of climate is inspiring, says Klas Svensson from Sida, the Swedish International Development Agency, which tasked SMHI with the mission to implement the programmes. – A clear added value is that Last updated:

SMHI researchers lead new EU project to develop next generation climate system models

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OptimESM will provide new and policy-relevant knowledge on the consequences of reaching or exceeding different levels of global warming, including the risk of rapid change in key Earth system phenomena and the regional impacts arising both from the level of global warming and the occurrence of Last updated:

Annual report 2020

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much from normal. In the bottom water of the Baltic Sea, no direct improvement of the oxygen situation was seen. In December 2019, there was a small inflow to the Baltic Sea that temporarily raised oxygen levels in the southern and south-eastern parts at the beginning of 2020. But this increase in Last updated:

Algae report number 7, 2022

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were also common and Aphanothese paralelliformis was most common. The equal amount of filamentous cyanobacteria in surface sample and hose sample indicates that the fila- ments were dispersed into the top layer (0-10 m) of the water column. Östergarnsholm 15th of July The wind stress was less prominent Last updated: