Institute Update: ICTP Meeting and training events Climate impacts on food security AGRHYMET, Niamey, Niger – one week Sept 2015, ICTP-AGRHYMET co-funding. Robertson co-lecturing - Climate information, S2S and seasonal forecasting ICTP-CLIVAR workshop on decadal variability and predictability CLIVAR and WCRP co-sponsorship Nov16-24 at ICTP.
Institute Update: ICTP Meeting and training events S2S training school ICTP Nov 23-Dec 7 ECMWF/IRI (Robertson, Vitart) ICTP funding with WMO funding support for 7 Training in the use of the ECMWF S2S database 2016: Summer school on climate system prediction and the deliverable of actionable regional climate S2S and seasonal in Dakar Hosted by ANACIM Limited funding from ICTP – needs cofunding or co-scheduling with next WGSIP meeting to make sustainable More from Ousmane on Monday...
Institute Update: ICTP Climate and health prediction Uganda malaria seasonal prediction Full analysis conducted using sentinel and district health data Skill in some districts at predicting outbreak years Short data series and staff turnover Pilot in 2016? JAMSTEC – malaria forecasting in South Africa Visit in 2015 to install malaria model on JAMSTEC systems Use of new JAMSTEC database in 2016. Potential upcoming projects concerning seasonal health risk prediction in Senegal, Bhutan (Swiss TPH) Working with Madeleine Thomson in IRI on uncertainties in climate-health predictions
Institute Update: ICTP Articles Potential seasonal prediction of malaria published in JAMC Article on Ugandan system underway CHFP for Nature Data on hold at the moment