Climate Land Interaction Project (CLIP) - East Africa
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Introduction

Climate & Land Interactions in East Africa

Welcome to the CLIP (Climate Land Interaction Project) web site at Michigan State University. The overall objective of this research project is to understand the nature and magnitude of the interactions of climate and land use/cover change across East Africa. Researchers are employing a variety of tools to understand these important linkages. These include the use of regional atmospheric models, crop production models, land use/cover change models, satellite remote sensing, role playing simulations and household survey information. Data from several case study areas, located along ecological gradients located on prominent volcanoes (e.g., Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya) are being used to build high resolution models that can be scaled up to the region.

Our research team is composed of climatologists, experts in land use/cover change, remote sensing, meteorology, geographic information systems and ecology.

The study region focused principally on Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania but it also includes portions of: Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique.

NSF LogoFunding for the project: An Integrated Analysis of Regional Land-Climate Interactions, is from the National Science Foundation Biocomplexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems Program and the Michigan State University Foundation.

 

 

 

Images from Africa

From May 2004
The following images were provided by CLIP researchers while in Kenya conducting spectormetry measurements and ground truthing.

Research Area
Study Region
Click on the map to view the entire study region. (181 KB - PDF)