AMMA-CATCH: Hydrological and meteorological observatory on West Africa
AMMA-CATCH : African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis - Coupling the Tropical Atmosphere and the Hydrological Cycle
Laboratoire d'étude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère, Toulouse
HydroSciences, Montpellier
Direction de l'Hydraulique, Benin - Direction de la Météorologie Nationale: Benin, Mali, Niger - Universities: Benin, Mali, Niger - Institut d'Economie Rurale, Mali - Direction Nationale de l'Hydraulique, Mali
A observing system for a long-term follow-up of the vegetation's dynamic, the water cycle and their interaction with the climate in West Africa. Objective: to study the hydrological impact of climate change.
» Learn more about the motivation, the scientific objectives and the multiscale observation's strategy of the AMMA-CATCH observing system
Focus
» Publication of Journal of Hydrology special issue on AMMA-CATCH: see the cover.
» Follow-up of the 2009 field measurements: see the graphs.
» Recent scientific results: see some illustrations (in french).
News
» 2009/07: Participation to the 3rd International AMMA Conference, Ouagadougou, 20-24 july 2009: Brief summary of key achievements (in french)
» 2009/05: first remote transmission of Hydrological data by ARGOS on the Benin site.
» 2008/07: installation of the last CO2/H2O flux station on the Benin site. see the photos.
AMMA-CATCH comprises the "land surface and hydrology" component of the long/extended observation period (EOP/LOP) of the AMMA project (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses) observational strategy.
Partnership
Laboratoire d'étude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère, Toulouse HydroSciences, Montpellier Direction de l'Hydraulique, Benin - Direction de la Météorologie Nationale: Benin, Mali, Niger - Universities: Benin, Mali, Niger - Institut d'Economie Rurale, Mali - Direction Nationale de l'Hydraulique, Mali