About Climate Impacts Online Sahel Region

This page illustrates climate change scenarios and their impacts on agriculture and food security, which are interconnected to migration. Therefore, it provides user information related to historical and projected scenarios of temperature and precipitation at different RCP's. Observational data is available for the period 1981-2014 and simulation results for the past and future, the latter is derived from the CMIP6 simulation collaboration. The portal displays three future climate pathways, that describe the development of societal drivers of human interference with the climate system. Agricultural data includes the areas, productivities and yields for different crops cultivated in the Sahel from 1961 to 2019. For questions please contact us under the following email: .

For questions please contact us under the following email:
gornott@pik-potsdam.de or loeben@pik-potsdam.de