Publications

The WaSCIA User Handbook has been prepared to help users effectively access and use the WaSCIA tools. The Handbook provides step-by-step illustrated instructions for account setup in WASDI, access and execution of both applications, and exploration of the outputs.

The WaSCIA project have prepared 2 versions of the User Handbook - one in English and one in French.

This report describes the Policy Highlights of the WaSCIA project.

Previously the Policy Traceability Matrix Analysis Report identified a total of 74 policies relevant to the WaSCIA project and outlined potential solutions.

This report revisits the policy requirements identified and describes the solutions applied through the WaSCIA project to meet these needs.

This report contains both the Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) and Product Specification for the WaSCIA solution.

The ATBD provides a description of the algorithms used to generate the WaSCIA products which include the surface wetness and evaporation loss data products, the climate indices and the threshold warnings.

This is the second version of this document, updated based on the feedback collected and changes implemented during the project.

This report presents the results of the WaSCIA project outreach activities, in particular the two online webinars and workshop in Dakar, Senegal.

These events aimed to increase the visibility of the WaSCIA project, to demonstrate the WaSCIA applications to potential local users and showcase the tool functions and outputs through relevant tailored use-cases.

These were important opportunities for the WaSCIA project team to gather specific feedback about the applications and notebooks, including the user’s experiences, problems encountered, and suggestions for future improvements.

This notebook has been prepared to demonstrate some simple plotting of the WaSCIA climate indices.

Designed to sit alongside the user’s WASDI workspace. After running the climate indices application (wascia_processor_climate_indicators) and generating the climate indices of interest, the notebook will read these output data files directly from the user’s workspace.

The notebook provides a number of plotting functions to generate a range of common timeseries and heatmap plots.

While not all the plots will be relevant for all of the indices, these plots are intended as examples and we encourage the users to select the most appropriate plot for their purpose and/or adapt the code as necessary.

Download the notebook here and then upload it to WASDI to be able to generate plots from the outputs in your personal workspace.

This demo video explains the steps needed to run the notebook.

This notebook has been prepared to enable users to compare the climatology and the in-season time-series of a selected climate index.

Designed to sit alongside the user’s WASDI workspace. After running the climate indices application (wascia_processor_climate_indicators), the notebook will read these output data files directly from the user’s workspace.

• Climatology Generation: For the selected climate index, the notebook will calculate the climatology of that index, using historical data from the baseline period 1981 to 2010.
• Threshold Definition: For the comparison of a specific year with the climatology data (1981-2010), the warning thresholds can be set as: Percentiles, Standard deviation or Absolute Values
• Decision Support: The tool generates a user-friendly plot of the climatology and the time series of a selected climate index, so the user can easily detect the periods that fall outside of the thresholds selected.

This demo video explains the steps needed to run the notebook.

This document describes the processors and workflows that sit behind the WaSCIA applications. It also describes the cloud-based infrastructure, WASDI, whether the processors are deployed. The WaSCIA solution comprises two main components:

• WaSCIA HydroSENS-Soil Water Stress Application
• WaSCIA Climate Indices Application...

This report contains the Policy Review Matrix which collects key policy requirements relevant to the WaSCIA project.

In total 74 policies have been identified for consideration. Alongside each requirement we have outlined a proposed solution for how the WaSCIA project can address these. We will review these again at the end of the project.

This report contains a summary of the results from the WaSCIA User Survey, suitable for public distribution.

This report contains a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art of EO-based methods and solutions relevant to the WaSCIA project.