Forecasting Local Climate for Policy Analysis : A Pilot Application for Ethiopia

Forecasting Local Climate for Policy Analysis : A Pilot Application for Ethiopia

This paper describes an approach to forecasting future climate at the local level using historical weather station and satellite data and future projections of climate data from global climate models (GCMs) that is easily understandable by policyma...

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Main Authors: Blankespoor, Brian, Pandey, Kiran Dev, Wheeler, David
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
BENCHMARK
BENCHMARKS
CLIMATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE FORECASTS
CLIMATE MODELS
CLIMATE SYSTEM
CLIMATE VARIATION
CLIMATIC RESEARCH
CLIMATIC RESEARCH UNIT
CRU
DOMAIN
EMISSIONS
GCM
GLOBAL SCALE
GLOBAL WARMING
INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE
IPCC
LOW RAINFALL
PRECIPITATION
PROBABILITIES
PROBABILITY
RAIN
RAINFALL
SATELLITE
SATELLITES
SPRING
TEMPERATURE
WEATHER
WEATHER PATTERNS
WEATHER STATIONS
WEB
AVERAGE ANNUAL RAINFALL
AVERAGE RAINFALL
CLIMATE DATA
CLIMATE EVENTS
CLIMATE FORECASTING
CLIMATE MODELING
CLIMATE PATTERNS
CLIMATE PREDICTION
CLIMATE PROJECTIONS
CLIMATE REGIMES
CLIMATE TRENDS
DISTILLATION
ECONOMICS OF ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
EMISSIONS SCENARIOS
FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS
GLOBAL CLIMATE
GLOBAL EMISSIONS
HIGH TEMPERATURE
LOCAL CLIMATE
RAINFALL CONDITIONS
RAINFALL DATA
RAINFALL PATTERNS
SEASONAL RAINFALL
TEMPERATURE RISES
TEMPERATURES
Online Access:http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20090720131835
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4196

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4196

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