This is the sound of West Africa's Changing Climate

If you could take a year’s worth of rain gauge readings from a city in Ghana, and transform the information into a musical track, what would it sound like? What would the tune sound like if the data were to show the rainfall that the same city might expect a century later, based on computer-generated climate projections of a warmer world?

A group of scientists, including LIFD's Prof Doug Parker, and musicians have teamed up to use the process of ‘data sonification’ to do just that, using climate model data from cities in the West African countries of Niger and Ghana to create tracks that demonstrate musically how the climate will shift away from the historic norm within the next century.

The aim is to mix musical tracks based on climate-related data that will raise awareness amongst audiences about West Africa’s changing climate, while still having the emotionally evocative pull of a groovy tune.

For the full article see: https://futureclimateafrica.org/news/this-is-the-sound-of-west-africas-changing-climate/