The Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB) serves as a Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador, advancing a global commitment to strengthening resilience in the face of climate variability and increasing hydro-meteorological risks. As an educational, outreach, and networking organization based at the University of Colorado Boulder, CCB works across disciplines and […]
Crosscutting Themes (Based on the Portal/ENRNs Project’s 15-country, city and region case studies) Each of the 15 country studies exposed issues of concern raised by the research teams. CCB clustered several but not all of those key concerns into six general categories, each of which highlights challenges to […]
Michael H. Glantz et al. Published: 7 March 2018 Abstract Once an El Niño event has been forecast, government warnings and news headlines highlight the need for society to get ready for the potential impacts of the event, whether drought, flood, heatwave, disease outbreak, or water shortage. The […]
NMHS Modernization, and the Level of a Nation’s El Nino Readiness A key actor in an “El Niño ready nation” is a country’s hydrological and meteorological service (NMHS). In countries affected by El Niño, the role of the NMHSs is very important as they are expected to provide […]
Basic Invariant Needs Aside from the unique needs of each specific country to cope with its hydro-meteorological hazards, their NMHSs, generally speaking, are likely to have common (similar) basic needs to fulfill their core operational responsibilities to their societies. Those common basic needs will likely vary to some […]
Modernization in Parts (Basic Needs) Aside from the unique needs of each specific country to cope with its hydro-meteorological hazards, their National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs), generally speaking, are likely to have common (similar) basic needs to fulfill their core operational responsibilities to their societies. El Niño […]
