On the Web: Seasonal climate forecasts — El Niño and Africa
Climate Prediction Center - Africa products
http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/products/african_desk/
Listing of forecast products supporting collaboration between
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center and African meteorological and
climate services.
Climate Watch Africa
http://www.acmad.ne/
Monthly bulletin from the African Centre for Meteorological
Applications for Development providing information on current climate
conditions and predictions on the continental and sub-regional scales.
In French and English.
Drought Monitoring Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa
http://lion.meteo.go.ke/dmc/index.html
From one of a series of drought monitoring centres in Africa,
links are provided to forecast information and to other centres.
El Nino-related climate predictions
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/forecasts.html
Comprehensive listing of El Niño forecast links from the
NOAA/PMEL/TAO Project Office.
Experimental Long-Lead Forecast Bulletin
http://grads.iges.org/ellfb/
Issued quarterly by the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies,
the bulletin provides a compilation of climate predictions from many
sources in real time with information regarding their derivation.
Famine Early Warning System (FEWS)
http://gaia.info.usaid.gov/fews/fews.html
FEWS is a multi-disciplinary project organized by USAID providing
sub-national information to decision makers about potential famine
situations.
International Research Institute for climate prediction (IRI)
http://iri.ucsd.edu/forecast/index_iri.html
IRI’s mission is assess and develop seasonal to interannual
climate forecasts. The IRI forecast is a distillation of information
from a variety of prediction tools, including modelling, statistics
and monitoring.
Southern Africa Seasonal Outlook
http://weather.iafrica.com/forecasts/cip_seasonal_outlook.html
Long-range forecast for Southern Africa from Mark Jury at the
University of Zululand.