Currently many areas of New Zealand are experiencing severe drought. Could the impacts of drought have been minimized with an effective long-range warning system (LRWS)? Three-stage warning systems that conduct short, medium and seasonal forecasting can prepare industries and communities for both severe weather events and the impacts […]
Published by Click Carrot The South Asia Drought Monitoring System (SADMS) and its newly launched online portal was demonstrated at a regional workshop held in New Delhi today. The SADMS expected to provide near‐real information of drought onset and progression helping decision makers respond in time. The interactive SADMS online […]
Ida Sem Fossvik|Published 05. Nov 2017 The last El Niño phenomenon brought droughts and floods that increased humanitarian needs around the world. NORCAP experts have worked in some of the hardest hit areas, putting preparedness in the priority seat, to increase national and regional ability to cope with […]
The UK government has launched a project in the Rift Valley and Western in which farmers will get updates on weather through the SMS. The platform known as Western Wiser Project is expected to benefit more than 300,000 farmers. It is being piloted in Trans Nzoia, Siaya, Kisumu […]
Summary October 8, 2015 The strong El Niño of 2015 has contributed to suppressed rainfall over northern East Africa and Central America and the Caribbean (Figure 1), significantly limiting agricultural and pastoral potential, and straining local livelihoods. These impacts are contributing to Crisis (IPC Phase 3) acute food […]
Monitoring and Early Warning Systems Related to the EI Niño Phenomenon Many countries, especially those in ENSO affected areas can now use seasonal climate variability predictions for timescales up to about two seasons. This breakthrough has largely been due to a 10 year project of WCRP, the Tropical […]
El Niño, DRR & CCA Using El Niño as a bridge between DRR and CCA allows for a partnership between the two, not a horse and rider relationship, but one that is based on a co-joining of forces to combat the negative effects of El Niño-related hazard events. […]
