The design of an early warning system for floods in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania A case study for the local bus company
With climate change increasing its mark on all aspects of the hydrological cycle, societies all over the world living in flood-prone areas are increasingly exposed to flood hazards. In many parts of the world, especially in less developed areas, societies lack knowledge and data to predict future flood events. By predicting a future flood event, […]
TAHMO on World Wildlife Day
Every year on the 3rd March the world commemorates World Wildlife Day. We celebrate the wide diversity of animals and plants across the globe while raising awareness about threats facing them. This year’s theme, “Life below water: for people and plants” is inspired by goal 14 of UN sustainable goals which aims to conserve the […]
The six challenges that an organization like TAHMO faces
The idea of TAHMO started back in 2010/2011 and was formalized through a foundation in 2014. Since 2014 the organization managed to install over 400+ weather stations across 20 African countries. An amazing achievement. However, this did not go as simple as an ABC. Through this blog, we would like to lift the curtain on […]
The TWIGA days, a day to day recap from our students
The first week of the TWIGA days consisted of meetings, workshops, and conferences. The first day (Monday) consisted of updates from all the TWIGA partners about the progress made in the previous period. All updates about the projects that have been completed and are still in the developing stage and problems that have occurred have been included. […]
From “nice idea” to “actionable information”
The TWIGA Kumasi Hardware Hackathon **Written by Nick van de GiesenTAHMO has been working with the TWIGA project since the start of 2018. An important output of the TWIGA project will be new geo-services (twenty!) based on the application of innovative sensors. In order to speed up the development of these services, a Hackathon was […]
TAHMO is providing crucial data for an international consortium on research related to biogeochemical cycling of carbon, phosphorus, and nitrogen in the Congo Basin
photos and text: Matti Barthel (ETH Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science) CBO and TAHMO cooperate in the DRC Three years ago, we – researchers of the Congo Biogeochemistry Observatory (CBO) – got in contact with TAHMO to install weather stations at our field research sites in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Generally, basic weather […]
Roll out of the AWS program in Ghana with GMet
One of the challenges of the Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet) is the availability of real-time weather data for its day-to-day activities such as daily weather monitoring and forecasting, climate monitoring, etc. It takes about a month for data from the manual observatories to get to the central collation point for digitization, quality control and archiving. […]
Training of St. Paul’s SHS Students
The TAHMO Initiative regards training and education of both teachers and students of schools with a TAHMO station as a very crucial ingredient of the Initiative. This is done through the school2school program which is created to serve the important purpose of educating, training, and support with teaching and learning materials. Students and Geography teachers […]