Vietnam fights climate change with COVID strategy
By James Borton
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Few experts dispute that raising the awareness levels of Vietnamese people can and will insure sustainable development of the country. However, available information about the country’s climate situation is limited, unstructured and difficult for the major population to access and understand.
Credit should be given to Vietnam’s newest eAtlas project. A team of research scientists are making available a series of atlases of the nation’s climate conditions using multiple images and sources derived from satellites.
“The atlases consist of a number of principal environmental variables including surface temperature, humidity, wind, vegetation index, sea level, ocean current, and waves,” claims Dr Nguyen Dac Da, a post-doctoral oceanography researcher at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
His team of five, comprised of other oceanographers, a meteorologist and IT expert, is now building a ‘wire grid’ to deliver climate change views through graphical tools to every corner of the country. Of course, Nguyen admits that collaborations are essential to achieve this goal.
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