The "sky-Insight" Infra-Red camera developped by Reuniwatt has been set-up from April to October 2022 at Bambidie to follow the low cloud cover that develops over the region during the dry season.

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The weather station formally installed at Bambidie near Lastourville within the Precious Woods concession has been dismanteled and set-up further south within the Lékédi Park. It now supports and completes the activities of the CNRS - INEE SEEG.

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Several papers have been recently published that bring insights about the low cloud cover mean space-time variations, its detection by satellites and representation in CMIP6 models and also about incoming solar radiation.
Berger, A. et al (2025) The dry-season low-level cloud cover over western equatorial Africa: A case study with a mesoscale atmospheric model. Quaterly. J. Roy. Met. Society. Article in Open Access at : https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/qj.4962 (…)

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The two databases created during the project, i.e. the low-cloud in-situ observations and the Bambidie (Gabon) weather station measurements are now available in open access with a Doi as follows :
1 - Cloud observing data of 85 stations in western Central Africa : DOI: 10.35097/1354 This dataset, in netcdf format, consists of cloud fraction and cloud genus data from 85 stations in western Central Africa from 1971-2019. The database is based on the following databases: Extended Edited (…)

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