If you're having trouble seeing
this html page, click here to view
online.
IRI Scientist wins NSF CAREER award
Read the full story + Watch a video interview.
Upcoming events and seminars...
THURSDAY! IRI Seminar at Lamont Campus: Climate, Forecast and Impacts Briefing. Our monthly meeting during which we unveil the latest global and regional forecasts, as well as discuss climate-related events around the world. view
FRIDAY! Pakistan Floods: Prevention and Preparedness to Guide Humanitarian Action in Future Crises. Columbia University Medical Center. view
FRIDAY! Columbia Water Center Seminar: Implications of Climate Change and Variability in Crop Water Use and Productivity. view
Casey Brown, an adjunct associate research scientist at IRI, describes a bottom-up, risk-based framework for the analysis of climate impacts on water resources systems in order to address the multitude of future uncertainties that affect water management and water resources planning and design. Watch it here.
La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific are known to shift rainfall patterns in many different parts of the world. Although varying somewhat from one La Niña to the next, the strongest shifts are fairly consistent in the regions and seasons shown in our latest map. Download it here.
IRI in the News...
Get Ready for a La Niña Winter (Climatecentral.org). view
WMO Says Moderate to Strong La Niña Expected to Continue into 2011 (ReliefWeb). view
U.S. Names Columbia as Lead Institution on Climate Risk and Adaptation Assessment in Urban Northeast (Columbia News). view
Recent scientific publications...
Evaluating Detection Skills of Satellite Rainfall Estimates over Desert Locust Recession Regions. T. Dinku, P. Ceccato, K. Cressman and S. J. Connor, 2010. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Validation and Intercomparison of Satellite Rainfall Estimates over Colombia. T. Dinku, F. Ruiz, S. J. Connor and P. Ceccato, 2010. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
Development and Application of Multi-Temporal Colorimetric Transformation to Monitor Vegetation in the Desert Locust Habitat. J.F. Pekel, P. Ceccato, C. Vancutsem, K. Cressman, E. Vanbogaert and P. Defourny, 2010. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.
Current seasonal rainfall forecast...
See all of our forecasts...
For additional resources, please visit our Media Page.