Climate forecasting to serve communities in West Africa
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2010
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Elsevier
Abstract
The recent Red Cross experience acting on forecasts in west Africa provides examples of how climate information can be linked to
decisions and serve development in low-income regions, and how climate and weather forecasts may become useful to communities
at risk from climatic events, provided that the obstacles thwarting these communities’ access to and use of forecasts are clearly
identified and overcome.
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CLIMATE VARIABILITY, SEASONAL FORECASTING, EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS, COMMUNITY, RED CROSS, WEST AFRICA, VULNERABILITY, DEVELOPMENT, AIR-SEA INTERACTIONS, AGROMETEOROLOGY, HYDROLOGY
Citation
Tall, A. (2010). Climate Forecasting to Serve Communities in West Africa. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 1, 421-431. doi:10.1016/j.proenv.2010.09.030