Voices from the field

Open for contributions

This page is curated by the CGIAR Climate Data Hub but the content is from partner institutions. We’re seeking 2-3 paragraph contributions from National Meteorological Services, regional research centres (ICPAC, ACMAD, SADC-CSC, AGRHYMET, CSAG), and CGIAR partners — explaining how your institution uses CMIP6 for the region you cover, which models you favour, and where your perspective differs from the Atlas’s defaults.

To contribute:

• Click “Edit this page” in the footer below to open the source markdown on GitHub.
• Or contact the Atlas team via p.steward@cgiar.org and we’ll integrate your contribution.
• Each contribution is reviewed by the Atlas team and credited to the contributing institution.

What this page is

The goal of this section is to surface regional climate-science expertise that doesn’t always reach the global peer-reviewed literature. The peer-reviewed literature is one voice; the operational perspective from regional centres + NMHSs is another. Both belong in a defensible reference work on African climate-model use.

How to contribute

Each contribution should:

• Identify the contributing institution and contact (so we can credit and check back)
• Stay roughly 2-4 paragraphs unless the topic warrants more
• Cite at least one peer-reviewed source or institutional report supporting the perspective
• Acknowledge where the perspective departs from the Atlas’s defaults

A short style guide:

• Plain language; define jargon
• Acknowledge uncertainty plainly
• Honest about limits of operational use over your region
• Where regional / national-specific climate-rationale work uses a different model subset than the Atlas’s default, explain why

Current contributions

(Outreach in progress to: Kenya Meteorological Department / ICPAC; South African Weather Service; Ethiopian National Meteorology Agency; Ghana Meteorological Agency; INSTM Madagascar / Météo Madagascar; ACMAD; AGRHYMET. Contributions will be added here as they are received.)

(Placeholder section — first contribution pending)

Once a contribution is received and reviewed, it will appear here with a sub-heading naming the contributing institution, the contribution date, and the contributor’s name and role.

Acknowledgement and credit

Every contributor’s name and institution appears with their contribution. The wiki commits to:

• Retaining contributions in the public version control history (so contributors can cite their own contribution).
• Recording a “last reviewed” date per contribution so partners can see when their content was last validated.
• Versioning: if a contributor wishes to update their text, the wiki history retains the previous version for citation stability.

Why this section matters

The Atlas’s default model choices are defensible against the global peer-reviewed evaluation literature (see Regional evaluation). But “defensible against global literature” is not the same as “everyone agrees with us.” Where a regional centre has internal evidence of better-performing models for their specific use case, this is the section that surfaces that.

We’re not asking partners to publish new research here — just to share their operational perspective. Even short contributions add a layer of regional credibility that no academic paper can.