The African Centre for Meteorological Applications and Development (ACMAD), as a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Regional Climate Centre for Africa, organized a first of its kind one day Africa Continental Climate Outlook Forum (ACCOF-01). FOCUS-Africa participated as one of the supporting projects and our coordinator made remarks during the opening session.

The purpose of this Forum is to ensure improved capacity amongst established and upcoming Regional Climate Centres to regionalize products from WMO designated Global Centres. It also aimed at providing a platform for technical discussions on drivers of continental climate and interregional interactions. Finally, it gave the chance for experts to review together the SOND 2021 seasonal climate across the continent and to produce a continental consensus climate outlook for the February to April (FMAM) 2022 period.

Presentations from the event, conducted virtually on 4^th February 2022, can be downloaded below.

PERFORMENCE AND VERIFICATION OF OND 2021 AND FORECAST OF MAM 2022 SEASONAL CLIMATE – IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC)

VERIFICATION OF SEASONAL FORECAST OND 2021 – NORTH AFRICAN RCC – Direction Générale de la Météorologie
MOROCCO

SEASONAL FORECASTS FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION IN AFRICA – OUTLOOK VERIFICATION, CURRENT CLIMATE & CLIMATE OUTLOOK – ACMAD African Center of Meteorological Applications for Developement.

CURRENT FORECAST FMA + MAM 2022- SWIO Region – Météo France center for Indian Ocean

FORWARD LOOKING REPRESENTATION – 2021 State of Climate Report, What’s next ? – ACMAD African Center of Meteorological Applications for Developement.

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