University of Würzburg reports about WASCAL-DE-Coop

University of Würzburg reports about WASCAL-DE-Coop

June 24, 2019

einBlick, the online magazine of the University of Würzburg reports about the research activities of WASCAL-DE-Coop (2019-2022) in the context of climate change and food security in West Africa and the networking strategies. The team of German partners in WASCAL-DE-Coop is introduced.

If you would like to learn more about the plans of WASCAL-DE-Coop and to get an overview of the goals – such as the development of a data cube infrastructure for the sustainable utilization of derived datasets into operational applications and systems or the model-based carbon sequestration in vegetation and the variability and dynamics of fire events in savanna ecosystems, and their effects on the fire-induced release of greenhouse gas emissions – please have a look at the 24th volume of einBlick from June 18, 2019.

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