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Transcribing old weather reports of the African rainforest
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These historical observations provide a unique window into the climate history. Looking into the past will provide us with the data needed to better estimate climate change and plant responses of the central African rainforest.
Koen HufkensAbout Jungle Weather
The Jungle Weather project aims to transcribe weather observations recorded between 1949 and 1958 in the tropical rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Long-term observations of tropical weather are rare. The Jungle Weather observations comprise three decades of data of weather in the central African tropical forest, and are therefore an valuable source of information to support our understanding of for example drought resilience of trees species.
Acknowledgements
This project is a collaboration between Ghent University, the Royal Museum for Central Africa, the botanical garden Meise, the Belgian State Archives. The project was made possible with support of the Belgian Science Policy Office (Congo basin eco-climatological data recovery and valorisation (COBECORE); contract no. BR/175/A3/COBECORE), the Congo Basin drought resilience (an integrative modelling approach) or COBADIM project sponsored by a European Union Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (project number 797668) and the Institut National pour l’Etude et la Recherche Agronomiques (INERA) at Yangambi. All images are © State Archive (COBECORE).