Welcome to our environmental monitoring and forecasting site.
This site is meant to provide you with an overview of current, past and future conditions in the Okavango system.
We present here a variety of hydrological, meteorological, remote sensing and environmental data from the Okavango Delta and its environs. These data are/were collected during ORI research projects, through monitoring programme run by ORI and various Botswana government institutions, and from various internet repositories.
You will also find here results of climatological and hydrological forecasts for the Okavango System. At this stage the forecasts are issued from time to time, but we are working on providing these on a regular basis.
About the Delta
The Okavango Delta is a large flood-pulsed wetland located in northern Botswana. It is a part of the Okavango Basin. The Basin spans from the Cubango and Cuito Rivers flowing from Angola through Namibia, to the Makgadikgadi Pans region of Botswana. The entire system is driven by the annual flood, whereby highly seasonal rainfall generates a flood wave that takes months to move through approximately 1000 km chain of channels and 20,000 km2 of wetlands. Magnitude of the flood changes from year to year and from decade to decade. Here, we are trying to make sense of this variability, and make it more understandable to people who live and work in the Okavango, and people who are just interested in it.
Karibu kwenye tovuti yetu ya ufuatiliaji na utabiri wa mazingira. Tovuti hii inakusudia kukupa muhtasari wa hali ya sasa, ya zamani na ya baadaye katika mfumo wa Okavango. Katika makala hii, tutakuonyesha data mbalimbali za maji, hali ya hewa, uchunguzi wa mbali na mazingira kutoka Okavango Delta na maeneo yake. Takwimu hizi zinakusanywa wakati wa miradi ya utafiti ya ORI, kupitia programu ya ufuatiliaji inayoendeshwa na ORI na taasisi mbalimbali za serikali ya Botswana, na kutoka kwa hifadhi mbalimbali za mtandao. Pia utapata hapa matokeo ya utabiri wa hali ya hewa na hydrological kwa Mfumo wa Okavango. Katika hatua hii utabiri hutolewa mara kwa mara, lakini tunafanya kazi ya kutoa hizi kwa ukawaida. Kuhusu Delta Delta ya Okavango ni eneo kubwa la mvua lenye mafuriko lililo kaskazini mwa Botswana. Ni sehemu ya Bonde la Okavango. Bonde hilo linaanzia mito ya Cubango na Cuito inayotiririka kutoka Angola kupitia Namibia, hadi eneo la Makgadikgadi Pans la Botswana. Mtiririko wa mvua wa msimu wa msimu huunda wimbi la mafuriko ambalo huchukua miezi kusonga kupitia mnyororo wa mifereji ya kilomita 1,000 na maeneo ya mvua ya kilomita 20,000 kwa mwaka. Ukubwa wa mafuriko hubadilika-badilika kutoka mwaka mmoja hadi mwingine na kutoka mwongo mmoja hadi mwingine. "Hapa, tunajaribu kuelewa tofauti hii, na kuifanya iwe rahisi kuelewa kwa watu wanaoishi na kufanya kazi katika Okavango, na watu ambao wanavutiwa nayo tu. """