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Displaying 15 of about 79 resultsThe 11th annual climate prediction applications science workshop (CPASW) will convene in Logan, Utah, and focus on “Climate Information for Natural Resource Management.” This theme will integrate broad aspects of climate information applications in water, land, forest, wildlife, habitat, energy, and other natural resources management. Climate is a cross…
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According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), there is an urgent need to develop better drought monitoring and early warning systems. Drought is an insidious natural hazard that results from a deficiency of precipitation from expected or “normal” that, when extended over a season or longer period of time, is insufficient to meet…
Hydrologic Warning for a Changing World is the theme for the 2011 conference - reflecting our adaptation to change of all types and the emerging advances in protecting lives, property and the environment with hydrologic warning systems. If your profession or passion relates to the data collection and warnings associated with hydrologic events, then th…
Workshop 1 part of the 2011 National hydrologic warning council training conference
The goals of the Drought workshop are twofold. Our first objective is to confer with emergency managers, decision makers, and agency and organizational representatives on drought management tools, resources, and current projects. The workshop will highlight existing dr…
Press release 14-086
NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have released the first images captured by their newest Earth-observing satellite, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, which launched into space Feb. 27.
The images show precipitation falling inside a March 10 cyclone over the northwest Pacific Ocean,…
This report describes the state of the science and how the latest research has improved capabilities to monitor the current state of drought, predict its onset and evolution from weeks to seasons, and better understand why drought occurs. The purpose of the report is to communicate the crucial role NOAA research has played over the last decade in advanc…
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) are laying the foundations to help build coordinated, proactive national policies on drought.
An international organizing committee met in Geneva 13-14 December to make initial plans for a High Level Meeting on National Drought Policy schedul…
Disaster risk managers can improve their decision making by integrating climate information into their operations, writes Richard Choularton, senior policy officer in WFP’s Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction unit.
Rome - Climate and weather disasters from the massive floods in Pakistan to the devastating drought in Niger have claimed thousands…
This brochure illustrates the USAID's efforts in promoting disaster risk reduction, and in preventing or reducing the damage caused by natural hazards such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, and storms.
It provides examples of specific USAID assistance: in strengthening early warning systems in the Philippines, Indonesia, Mozambique and Guatemala; in su…
Kingston, Jamaica - On a very dry November 2013, Jamaica’s Meteorological Service made its first official drought forecast when the newly developed Climate Predictability Tool (CPT) was used to predict a high probability of below average rainfall in the coming three months.
By February, the agency had officially declared a drought in the eastern and ce…
The ongoing California drought has killed more than 100 million trees, according to a recent U.S. Forest Service estimate. Many of these, it turns out, are very old oaks – trees that are known to be drought resilient and have survived numerous droughts in the past.
So what happened to these oak trees?
Todd Dawson, a biology profess…
Emerging methods that improve precipitation forecasting over weeks to months could support more informed resource management and increase lead times for responding to droughts and floods.
By Michael J. DeFlorio, F. Martin Ralph, Duane E. Waliser, Jeanine Jones, and Michael L. Anderson
California experiences the largest year-to-year swings in wintert…
This case-bound book draws upon experiences around the world reflecting how people are using climate information to improve their lives, through climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies. In this book, over 100 authors are relating their work in weather, climate and water services at international, regional, national and local lev…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
The conference is the largest in the United States devoted specifically to real-time hydrologic warning systems and how these technologies assist local officials with storm readiness, emergency response, and disaster recovery.