Climate in Eastern Africa
Climate is effecting human health by bringing about variability in the ecology of infectious diseases. There are few practical tools to predict malaria epidemics based on climate forecasts. Such tools would be useful in making efficient use of the limited resources for malaria control. The work aim to incorporate climate variability and forecast information into a early warning system for malaria epidemics (EMAPS). My interest is in modelling and analysing the hyrometeorological conditions in east Africa using observations and a regional forecast and climate model (WRF) The work is done in cooperation with the National Meteorological Agency in Ethiopia, University of Arba Minch, Ethiopia, University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Center for International Health, Univ. of Bergen.
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REVIEWED PAPERS
Impacts of climate change on Blue Nile flows using bias-corrected GCM scenarios (2009)
Elshamy M. E., Seierstad I. A., and Sorteberg A.
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., Vol. 13, pp.551-565.