CLIMATE HAZARDS GROUP

The Climate Hazards Group specializes in applying climatology to problems of food security. We act as intermediaries between institutions specializing in forecasts, such as the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction and NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC), and users of climate forecast and monitoring data, such as the agronomists and economists evaluating food security for the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET). The CHG has evolved over the last 5 years as part of the ongoing collaboration between the USGS International Program and the University of California Santa Barbara Geography Department. The current status of this evolution involves the production of existing CHG products for consumption via this website, and the development of new approaches to rainfall mapping, prediction and evaluation.