Rufiji Basin Climate Change Decision Support Tool (IRA, UDSM)
University of Dar es Salaam Institute of Resource Assessment decision-support tool presenting climate-change impacts on water resources and agriculture in Tanzania's Rufiji Basin (~177,000 km2), East Africa's largest river basin.
ira.udsm.ac.tz
At a glance
- Region
- Tanzania (Africa)
- Coverage
- Basin
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Academic
- Last updated
- 2024
What's inside
- hydrology
- climate impacts
- water resources
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Risk screening
Screen projects and assets for climate risk.
Because it has: climate impacts
- 02
Future water
Estimate water availability under future scenarios.
- 03
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Because it has: hydrology
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Bias correction
Correct and downscale climate model output for a site.
- 02
Emulators
Replace slow model runs with fast ML emulators.
- 03
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
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