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Climate and Health Communities Training Together
For the third year in a row, public-health professionals and climate scientists from around the world are visiting Columbia University's Lamont campus, where the IRI is based, to learn how to use climate information to make better decisions for health-care planning and disease prevention. They're taking part in the third Summer Institute on Climate Information for Public Health, organized by IRI, in partnership with the Center for International Earth Science Information Network and Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.
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Upcoming events and seminars...
June 10th: IRI Seminar: Decision-Scaling: A Decision Analytic Approach To Using Climate Information, by Casey Brown, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and IRI Adjunct Associate Research Scientist view
June 10th: An Example Of A Tool Development Approach: Weather Index Insurance Educational Tool (WIIET). view
June 15th: IRI Seminar Series: (1) An Ensemble Approach To Estimation Of Uncertainty On Satellite-Based Rainfall Estimates; (2) Application Of Seasonal Rainfall Forecasting And Satellite Rainfall Observations To Crop Yield Forecasting For Africa. view
IRI in the News...
Climate Outlook Raises Concerns for Haiti (The Energy Collective via Climate Central). view
MacArthur Awards $5.6 Million to Support New Master's Programs to Train Sustainable Development Leaders Around the World (MacArthur Foundation). view
2010 Hurricane season outlooks: Tropical trouble (The Washington Post). view
African Meteorology Services Gear Up for Climate Change (America.gov). view
Recent scientific publications...
Mechanisms of Climate Change in the Semiarid African Sahel: The Local View. Alessandra Giannini, 2010. Journal of Climate
Verification of the First 11 Years of IRI's Seasonal Climate Forecasts. Barnston, A. G., S. Li, S. J. Mason, D. G. DeWitt, L. Goddard, and X. Gong, 2010. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
Introduction to Remote Sensing for Monitoring Rainfall, Temperature, Vegetation and Water Bodies. Ceccato, P., and T. Dinku, 2010. IRI Technical Report 10-04.
Current seasonal rainfall forecast...
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