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Top Climate Forecasters Meet, Plan News Briefings...10/27/99
Lori Stills - University of Arizonia

TUCSON, Ariz. -- The nation's foremost climate forecasters will meet at the University of Arizona Nov. 1 - 5 to exchange new ideas and information for improved short-term climate prediction. About 150 scientists will convene at the University Marriott, 880 E. Second St., for the 24th NOAA Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop. The meeting is held shortly before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issues its annual winter climate forecast.

Seasonal, annual and decadal climate forecasts are key to understanding events that inevitably lead to news headlines.

Participants include forecasters who project the number of hurricanes that will hit the Atlantic seaboard, or who predict regional precipitation for anticipated La Nina or El Nino regimes. They forecast if coming seasonal monsoons will be unusually long and wet or brief and dry.

Also, they study risks climate poses for public health. Such risks range from human death due to a prolonged heat wave or air pollution-related illnesses, to recent outbreaks of encephalitis in New York City, dengue fever in Texas and Neuvo Leon in Mexico, and hanta virus in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest.  Sessions on the impact of changing climate on human health are a first at this workshop.

The first of the premier annual climate diagnostics workshops was organized as the nation was preparing legislation that focused national attention on climate research, said William A. Sprigg, a workshop organizer. It led to the World Climate Research Program and eventually to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Sprigg said. Sprigg is deputy director of the UA Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (ISPE) and adjunct research professor in the UA department of atmospheric sciences.

Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
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