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Latest Multimedia: Climate Information for Public Health
Climate and public-health communities are learning to speak each other's language to improve decision making on health-care planning and disease prevention. Watch our short video to learn more.


Understanding the Climate/Meningitis Connection

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IRI climate scientist Sylwia Trzaska checks to make sure the dust sampler she just finished assembling in Niamey, Niger is working properly before she heads off to install the same equipment in Ghana and Senegal. She and other IRI researchers are analyzing airborne dust from the Sahel to better understand its potential role in the spread of bacterial meningitis--a disease that can occur at rates twenty times higher here than in anywhere else in the world. We’ll be posting more on this work soon! Read the IRIN News story about the research.


Upcoming events and seminars...
March 4th: Columbia Water Center Seminar: Investigating Pathogen Transport In Bangladesh Aquifer Soils. Our monthly meeting during which we unveil the latest global and regional forecasts, as well as discuss climate-related events around the world. Watch this event live online at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/water-center. view

March 17th: 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


IRI in the News...
El Niño Status and Forecast (CLIMAS). view

La Niña Beginning to Wane, Forecast Center Says (Climate Central). view

Florida's winter is wrapping up (Herald Tribune). view

Meningitis - the role of dust in the Sahel (IRIN News). view

Pachauri arriving on two-day visit today (The Times of India). view

Is climate change driving up malaria case numbers? New findings contribute to the debate (TropIKA.net). view


In the science press...
Spatiotemporal analyses of soil moisture from point to footprint scale in two different hydroclimatic regions. C. Joshi, B. P. Mohanty, J. M. Jacobs, and Amor V. M. Ines, 2011. Water Resources Research.

Raised temperatures over the Kericho tea estates: revisiting the climate in the East African highlands malaria debate. Judith A. Omumbo, Bradfield Lyon, Samuel M. Waweru, Stephen J. Connor and Madeleine C. Thomson, 2011. Malaria Journal.

Peruse all of the IRI's scientific publications and reports in our database.


Current seasonal rainfall forecast...

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