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Agrilinks Features CHC's Early Estimates

Agrilinks features CHC's Early Estimates in "Climate Hazards Center Early Estimates and the East Africa March-to-May 2019 Drought." 

CHC Scientists Warn of "Declines in Ethiopia's Belg Growing Season Rainfall & Length of Season"

CHC Scientists Warn of "Declines in Ethiopia's Belg Growing Season Rainfall & Length of Season." 

This brief analysis summarizes an analysis of trends in the Ethiopian Belg rains. The Belg season in Ethiopia extends from February to mid-June, and contributes 50-65% of the annual rainfall totals for the southern and southeastern parts of the country, and up to 40% for the northeastern and eastern sectors of the country. This study examines trends in Belg rainfall over the past 39 years (1981-2019), documenting changes in rainfall characteristics, including start, end, and duration of the season, spatial and temporal distribution, and rainfall totals. 

EU Commission's JRC Includes CHIRPS as Input Rainfall in New ASAP System

The Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's science and knowledge service and science hub, has included CHIRPS as the input rainfall in the new methodology of their ASAP system. 

CHC Contributes to Paper on Communicating and Evaluating 2018 Summertime Upper Blue Nile Rainfall & Streamflow Forecasts in Preparation for Ethiopia's New Dam

Climate Hazards Center's Shrad Shukla contributes to "A Grand Prediction: Communicating and Evaluating 2018 Summertime Upper Blue Nile Rainfall and Streamflow Forecasts in Preparation for Ethiopia's New Dam." 

CHC Attends SERVIR AST Meeting 2019

CHC's Greg Husak and Shrad Shukla attend the SERVIR Applied Sciences Team meeting in Washington, D.C. from June 27-28, 2019.

AMS Journal of Climate Publishes Paper on CHC's New High-Resolution 1983-2016 Tmax Climate Data Record

AMS Journal of Climate publishes "A High-Resolution 1983–2016 Tmax Climate Data Record Based on Infrared Temperatures and Stations by the Climate Hazard Center." 

CHC Attends the 2019 NASA Harvest Annual Meeting

CHC's Greg Husak and Laura Harrison attend the 2019 NASA Harvest Annual Meeting to discuss web tools and data sets like CHC Early Estimates and CHIRPS-GEFS. NASA Harvest is a consortium of partners, including the CHC, commissioned by NASA and led by the University of Maryland. 

Agrilinks Hosts Webinar on CHC Data Sets, Tools, and Early Warning Methods

Climate Hazard Center's Greg Husak, Shrad Shukla, Laura Harrison, and Martin Landsfeld participated in an Agrilinks webinar titled "The Climate Hazards Center: Predicting the Factors that Influence Food Security in Vulnerable Regions."

Chris Funk Attends the Next-Generation Food Shock Modeling Meeting

Chris Funk attends the Next-Generation Food Shock Modeling meeting at the Aspen Global Change Institute in Aspen, Colorado.

Agrilinks Features CHC's Study of Kenya's 2019 March-to-May Season

Agrilinks features "Kenya's March-to-May Season: An Examination of April 2019 Predictions, May 2019 Outcomes, and the Implications of a Poor Start to the Season." 

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