The project team will focus on five key activities:
- Assessing each region’s vulnerabilities, information needs, capabilities and adaptation challenges.
- Working with national meteorological agencies as well as regional climate centers to produce forecasts and other climate information products that serve the needs of the water, disaster response and coastal management sectors.
- Using these products to develop drought early-warning systems and other types of integrated decision-support tools
- Improving the system through rigorous evaluation
- Building local capacity through trainings and workshops
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Agency for International Development are funding the project, which will kick off its first set of activities in late May 2014 in the Caribbean. It will expand to Asia in the fall of 2014 and to Africa by the end of 2015.
About the International Research and Applications Project (NOAA)