CCI/CLIVAR Workshop to Develop Priority Climate Indices

Abstract

Africa remains an area of relatively little analysis of long-term variability and trends in climate extremes. In February 2001 a workshop on developing climate indices using daily climate data was held in Casablanca, Morocco. The workshop was sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization and included representatives from more than 20 African nations. Each person brought daily climate data from stations within their countries and received a series of lectures and training on climate data issues including data quality, homogeneity, and methods of analysis of temperature and precipitation extremes. The workshop produced some of the first analyses of changes in observed climate extremes for this part of the world.