The worship is organised by the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1502 DETECT) of the University of Bonn, Germany in collaboration with German participating institutions of Research Centre (FZ) Jülich, Universities of Göttingen and Kiel and the German Weather Service (DWD).  The workshop seeks to develop a vision for the coming four years on Land Surface and Climate Change with the help of coupled modelling, new observation types including remote sensing and machine learning techniques, and scenario development and economic modelling. It will serve to identify open scientific issues, forge collaborations and leverage potential synergies in this regard.

As part of the workshop, I will present on "agro-ecological zones and soil/land use types of Ghana: relevance for the water cycle". As I speak on soils in Ghana, I will highlight three slides of results (slides 28, 29, 33 of the uploaded presentation) on the man-made African dark soils under the EJP Soils C-arouNd project in Ghana funded by the MPI, New Zealand.