Providing Seasonal-to-interannual climate information for risk management and decision-making

Procedia Environmental Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 81-101

  Goddard, L ^a   Aitchellouche, Y ^b   Baethgen, W ^a   Dettinger, M ^c   Graham, R ^d   Hayman, P ^e   Kadi, M ^f   Martinez R ^g   Meinke, H ^h   Conrad, E ^a  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

^b International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies   (Senegal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^e Primary Industries and Resources of South Australia   (Australia)

^f African Centre of Meteorological Application for Development (ACMAD)   (Niger)

^g International Research Center on El Niño CIIFEN   (Ecuador)

^h WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate services for health; Health monitoring and surveillance; Information and education

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; INFORMATION USE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE INFORMATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE SERVICES FOR HEALTH; DECISION MAKERS; DECISION SYSTEMS; FORECAST INFORMATION; HEALTH MONITORING AND SURVEILLANCE; IMPROVE-A; INFORMATION AND EDUCATION; INTERANNUAL; WHITE PAPERS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 78650840894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18780296     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proenv.2010.09.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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