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On August 22, the final stakeholder workshop of the WASCAL WRAP2.0 LANDSURF project took place with the presentation of a freely accessible Decision Support System (DSS). The system contains a large number of (agro-)climatic variables from both the past (1981-2010) and the future up to the end of the 21st century, assuming various greenhouse gas scenarios. The underlying data is based on an ensemble of high-resolution regional climate models. In addition, a similar system from the WASCAL WRAP2.0 FURIFLOOD project was presented, which focuses on hydrological aspects.

As part of the BMBF project WASCAL WRAP2.0 LANDSURF, we have published a dataset with a large number of agricultural relevant indices for Africa. These include indices of temperature, heat, drought, and precipitation as well as various crop-specific indices of water availability for 12 different crops.

We have a new publication in Theoretical and Applied Climatology: Rai et al. (2024) are the first who investigated how different temperature- and precipitation-based climate indices will change under the influence of climate change by using data from CORDEX-CORE instead of the older CORDEX-CAS-44 data or solely a single simulation.

We have published a new study on the cooling effect of urban trees and green spaces in the journal Landscape and Urban Planning (Rahman et al. 2024).

We contributed two posters to the WCRP Open Science Conference held in Kigali, Rwanda, and online. There, we presented the development of agricultural indices in Africa under different emission scenarios (Abel et al. 2023a).

We have published a new paper entitled "Projected changes in rainfall amount and distribution in the Democratic Republic of Congo – Evidence from an ensemble of high-resolution climate simulations" in the journal Weather and Climate Extremes.

At the end of the exhibition "Water Change" in the Weltladen Würzburg, Dr. Daniel Abel was invited as a speaker to present the change in water availability as a consequence of climate change. The talk entitled "Water change - global, regional and local perspective" highlighted the occurrence of droughts and heavy precipitation in the past and - assuming different greenhouse gas scenarios - in the future.

We have published a new paper entitled "Climate change information tailored to agriculture and forestry in Central Europe, exemplified on the region of Lower Franconia" (Paeth et al. 2023) in the journal Climatic Change. In the paper, various indicators relevant to agriculture and forestry were investigated, such as the occurrence of late frosts, heat days, dry periods and heavy precipitation.

In the journal Ecology and Evolution, we addressed the question of how to determine the spatial distribution of insects based on bioclimatic variables in a Mediterranean region extended to the north.