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A service of the Centre for Coastal Management · University of Cape Coast, Ghana

Regional Oceans and Coastal DataHub

Regional Oceans & Coastal Data Hub · Cape Coast, Ghana

Open, citable data for Africa's coasts and oceans.

Biological, physico-chemical and socioeconomic datasets from coastal research across West Africa. Every dataset has a DOI.

Latest soundings

Recently published

New datasets from partner institutions, reviewed by the editorial office before publication.

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Explore by ecosystem

From lagoon to open sea

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From the field · Central Region, Ghana

Every dataset starts on a shoreline like this one.

Monthly sampling, surveys and community interviews by researchers at the Centre for Coastal Management.

Drone footage of the Central Region coast, on a loop with no sound.

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Climate tools

Turn the data into decisions

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Coastal Risk Atlas

Compare coastal vulnerability by country, region and district.

Sea Rise Insight

See which shorelines are exposed under sea-level rise scenarios.

EroTrack

Shoreline change rates, from accretion to severe erosion, metre by metre.

ClimFish

Estimate how climate change affects the fish species a coast depends on.

Working with

Programmes and databases that share or reuse ROC data.