Projects in the News
Heritage
Minister Bush told delegates that the meteorological
training which is being sponsored through the United Nations
Development Program (UNDP) GES project is aimed at building the capacity
of Liberians in making short and long-range forecasts concerning ...
Liberian Daily Observer
Fifty Liberians from various government ministries and agencies are expected to travel to Lagos, Nigeria to study at the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, Transport Minister Angela Cassell-Bush disclosed yesterday. Most of the participants, according to ...
Climate and Meteorology Training Resources
The COMET Program is pleased to announce the publication of four new
ASMET (African Satellite Meteorology Education and Training) lessons.
They are intended for operational meteorologists, meteorology students,
and others scientists and users interested in African weather and
climate.
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Extreme High Swell Events on the Moroccan Atlantic Coast:
This lesson provides background information on winds and waves, and
presents a process for monitoring and forecasting high swell events
using data such as ASCAT scatterometer wind data and the ECMWF Extreme
Forecast Index (EFI) product. The process is applied to two cases that
occurred on the Moroccan Atlantic coast in 2014.
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Using ASCAT Wind and Other Data in Marine Forecasting:
This lesson starts with a brief introduction to cold fronts and their
impact on weather and sea state conditions. This sets the stage for the
main part of the lesson, the case study, which follows the passage of a
cold front over the South Atlantic Ocean when the Polarstern research
vessel was transiting the area.
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Forecasting Heavy Rains and Landslides in Eastern Africa:
This lesson presents background information on landslides and a case
study on how to use satellite products and other data in the forecast
process so early advisories can be delivered to government officials and
the public.
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Satellite-Derived Climatology Products for Monitoring Convection Over West and Central Africa: This
lesson describes satellite-derived cloud climatology products and
several global instability indices that can be integrated with other
products to forecast convection. The lesson uses examples of climatology
products from specific months but makes the full suite of products
available for each month of the year.
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AMS
Climate Adaptation and Resiliency News
Facebook plans satellite ‘in 2016'
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says satellite will provide internet access to remote parts of Africa.
Read more
UN battle looms over climate costs
Divisions between rich and poor countries re-emerge as nations submit their plans for tackling climate change to the UN.
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New Security Beat (blog)
When war breaks out, what happens to the weather forecast? Violent
conflict disrupts many essential services in developing countries and
one of the most overlooked is
meteorology, which has surprisingly big consequences for farmers, policymakers...
The Guardian
So an increase in the frequency or severity of extreme weather events driven by climate change will result in increased risk of hunger and malnutrition in Africa's most vulnerable populations. At the moment, the system for responding to natural ...
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Climate Change in Africa
Reliefweb
Seasonal forecasts are moderately unfavourable with indications
of below average rainfall during July to September for Senegal-Mali and
Niger-Chad regions. Agrhymet Centre also issued predictions of shorter than average growing season for the Sahelian ...
AllAfrica.com
The Ethiopian meteorology would be part of the
process in implementing the schemes to evaluate its legal procedures."
Ethiopian Insurance Corporation Director General, Yewondwossen Eteffa
said, "Various pilot projects and international experiences have .
AllAfrica.com
The National Meteorology Agency announced that the western half, south and south eastern parts of Ethiopia
will have better rainfall in the coming ten days. In a press release
the Agency sent to ENA, it said the rain is suitable for meher farming ...
Equal Times
It's eight in the morning in Neno, southern Malawi,
and Agnes Jumbe, a 30-year-old mother-of-four has been waiting for
three hours to draw water from the village borehole. As well as the long
queue, Agnes has other things on her mind. As a widow, she ...
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