TAMSAT

Tropical Applications of Meteorology using SATellite data and ground-based observations ☁️🛰️🌧️
Providing near real time rainfall estimates for Africa

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Exciting opportunity at @SussexUni with long time TAMSAT collaborator Pedram Rowhani https://t.co/VkmP9T0XmF

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Great news from our friends at @climatehazards. Many congratulations on the release of CHIRPSv3.0!

[Climate Hazards Center @climatehazards]

📢 New data set release!

The Climate Hazards Center has released CHIRPS v3.0. This precipitation data set replaces CHIRPS v2.0.

Improvements:
✅Improved climatology (CHPclim2)
✅Improved satellite estimates (CHIRP3)
✅Nearly 4x more station data

Data: https://t.co/ECP4nPwqEZ

[TAMSAT @TAMSAT_Reading]

Test post @emily_black3

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Proud to be part of @eumetsat ‘Team Precipitation’ ! With @HydroSAF @DWD_klima and the JRC

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Very pleased to see extended use of TAMSAT incorporated into two of the draft recommendations from the @eumetsat Africa user forum!

[Vincent Gabaglio @vincentgabaglio]

Honored to see brilliant women at the 16th @EUMETSAT User Forum in Africa!

🌍 While a great step, there's room to improve gender balance. Let's aim for even more diversity at the next forum in 2 years! 💪 #WomenInSTEM #DiversityMatters #16UFA #17UFA

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Great to see our colleague Steffen Kothe from DWD presenting at @eumetsat on the essential role of satellite climate monitoring for understanding climate variability and change in Africa

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Proud moment! TAMSAT alumnus Dr Mariane Diop Kane reading the EUMETSAT ‘Cotonou Declaration’. @UniRdg_Research

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Very interesting working group meeting on training needs, especially with regard to accessing and analysing high res Meteosat third generation (MTG) data. @eumetsat user forum @emily_black3

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Great to be at the @eumetsat Africa user forum!

[Emily Black @emily_black3]

@ross_maidment’s Jamiat Nanteza’s and my PhD student, Evet Naturinda presenting her poster at the Global Flood Partnership conference. A remarkable achievement considering she only started 4 months ago! @UniRdg_Met @UniRdg_PhD @liz_stephens @TAMSAT_Reading @FCDOGovUK

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Very pleased to welcome colleagues from @WFP , @icpac_igad @MeteoKenya and @OxfordAOPP to @UniofReading to discuss anticipatory action and the very exciting SEWAA project!

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If you look closely, you can see that Nishadh is showing a TAMSAT-ALERT soil moisture forecast @UniRdg_Research @AtmosScience @NCEOscience

[Emily Black @emily_black3]

Fantastic workshop on anticipatory action and early warning for extreme weather events in Africa at @UniofOxford. Great to connect with old friends from @MeteoKenya, @icpac_igad and @ECMWF

[Emily Black @emily_black3]

A new drought model for disaster risk management in the Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan
Emily Black, Ross Maidment, Elizabeth Rees, Eleanor Nderitu
Published in Frontiers in Climate https://t.co/FuSN4L5y4u @UniRdg_Research @StartNetwork @AtmosScience 3/3

[Emily Black @emily_black3]

A computationally light-weight model for ensemble forecasting of environmental hazard: General TAMSAT-ALERT v1.2.1
Emily Black, John Ellis, Ross Maidment
Published as a pre-print in Geoscientific Model Development Discussions
https://t.co/zkjuzpnVgV

[Emily Black @emily_black3]

Newish paper!
The potential value of seasonal drought forecasts in the context of climate change: A case study of the African elephant conservation sector
Emily Black, Victoria Boult, Linda Hirons and Steven Woolnough
https://t.co/AKWgdLtb7H
@UniRdg_Research @AtmosScience @RMetS

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Great to share @TAMSAT_Reading work with Christian Aid

[Emily Black @emily_black3]

Fantastic workshop on future collaborations between Christian Aid, @UniRdg_Research and @AtmosScience

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Last week, @TAMSAT_Reading teamed up with Risk Shield Consultants in Nairobi to provide training to the Kenyan insurance sector on how TAMSAT’s new satellite-based soil moisture product can be used to improve agricultural drought index insurance! #EOCIS #NCEO

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Delighted that @vlboult won a prize for her TAMSAT talk at the NCAS meeting @AtmosScience

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We're super proud of @TAMSAT_Reading's director, Emily Black, receiving a long service award last night for 20 years of working in @AtmosScience! Congrats @emily_black3 👏 🥂🥳