Search results (379)

of Reading) and the Norwegian Refugee Council. It provided strategic and technical support to social protection initiatives, notably the World Bank’s Adaptive Social Protection Programme in the Sahel. This aims to reduce poverty by helping countries move away from expensive postdisaster emergency aid

factors that affect the movement and intensity of tropical cyclones and predicting the generation of cyclones over five days ahead is a significant challenge. Research by the University of Reading as part of the WCSSP Southeast Asia project has uncovered insights into the role of equatorial waves, which

. Phys. Oceanogr., 40 (9), 1917–1941. Bidlot, J.-R., 2012: Present status of wave forecasting at E.C.W.M.F. In Proc. ECMWF Workshop on Ocean Waves, Reading, 2012, p1-15. Bidlot, J.-R., J.-G. Li, P. Wittmann, M. Faucher, H. Chen, J.-M, Lefevre,T. Bruns, D. Greenslade, F. Ardhuin, N. Kohno, S. Park

) in meteorology and encourage them to ask questions relating to the environments and processes they were seeing. To avoid limiting activities to particular age groups, I planned projects with work accessible at different levels. With help from the University of Reading, I took a variety of mounted and handheld

radar network, but the readings could complement the Met Office’s existing observations networks to give an even greater level of detail on surface rainfall in urban areas. This is just one several possible opportunistic observations that the Met Office is exploring to improve our understanding

meteorological services and, in some locations, helped to train locally recruited staff in meteorology. This in turn assisted them in the post war development of their own national weather services. Figure 10. Reading a thermometer in the Western Desert (left) and an aerial view of the Met Station at Spitzbergen

on how climate change may be affecting TC intensities in the region. 3.3 Simulated changes to tropical cyclones 3.3.1 Analysing tropical cyclones using TRACK The TRACK software package 4 , developed at the University of Reading, identifies vortices in gridded atmospheric datasets. It has been widely

are intended to help direct reading towards the relevant sections within the report by country; they are not a complete assessment of the full range of risks at a country level. Benin country profile Benin is located on the West African south coast of the Atlantic Ocean in the Gulf of Guinea

number of participants Bungoma Reduced number of workshop days Limited funding Reduced number of participants Limited funding Inclusion of youth representatives amongst stakeholders To ensure that all categories are included Agropastoralist in Garissa Kenya reading PSP advisories. Credit: Eric Aduma

Office and the University of Reading led to a paper highlighting the importance of a causal approach to quantifying teleconnection pathways (Kretschmer et al., 2021). Lastly, a project looked at automatic clustering and classification of biomes from climate data (Sidoumou et al., 2022). BOX C Ocean