G-WADI African Flood and Drought Monitor
UNESCO G-WADI hydrologic-monitoring hub linking to the African (and LAC) Flood and Drought Monitors, an operational 5 km hydrological modelling system providing near-real-time and forecast soil moisture, streamflow, precipitation and drought indices aggregated by country and basin.
gwadi.org
At a glance
- Region
- Pan-Africa (Africa)
- Coverage
- Continental
- Access
- Free
- Category
- UN Organization
- Last updated
- 2025
What's inside
- drought
- flood
- soil moisture
- streamflow
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Because it has: streamflow
- 02
Low flows
Set environmental flows and check what is left in the river in a dry year.
- 03
Irrigation scheduling
Decide when and how much to irrigate.
Because it has: soil moisture
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
- 02
Ungauged basins
Combine with catchment data to estimate flow where there is no gauge.
- 03
Field-scale ET
Estimate crop water use per field by combining satellite and weather with ML.
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