Description
Climate change is a key issue because of the significant threat it poses to water resources, food security and safety. The average annual temperature has increased at least 1.5 times over the past five decades, and the frequency of extreme precipitation has increased too. Information about precipitation - expected and fallen - is the primary input for monitoring water resources as well as important information for everyday life. At present, rainfall data is monitored only at the locations of existing weather stations, short-term forecast or subsequent warnings are not available. The project is aimed at restoring and building new infrastructure and local capacities for providing services, supporting and strengthening sustainable agriculture in the Vinnytsia region by improving the monitoring, quality and forecasting of meteorological parameters, which will contribute to increasing the safety and resistance of communities to sudden changes and the impact of weather. The installation of meteorological radar and the training of professional workers will contribute to better monitoring of the state of the atmosphere, enable analysis of the current weather and improve the quality of creating short-term forecasts, which is also the goal of the cross-cutting topic SDG13. Detailed knowledge of the surface distribution of precipitation will enable better and more efficient planning in agriculture. The availability of data for the public will be ensured through specially designed services and in the form of providing alerts to local authorities with subsequent distribution to the population. The project is gender neutral, as it follows from theme SDG 5.