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By Giorgio Grisetti, Cyrill Stachniss, Kai Oliver Arras, Wolfram Burgard. September 11 in History, 2020

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Based on the most comprehensive survey to date of seasonal climate forecast use in West Africa, conducted across four nations, Tarhule and Lamb concluded in a 2003 BAMS article that very few people in the Sahel use the results of climate research and few have access to seasonal forecasts, even though the vast majority seem willing to use such information. This mixture of discouraging yet optimistic findings differed little from the quarter-century-earlier assessment of Glantz (in a 1977 BAMS article), despite substantial opportunity and motivation for progress during the intervening time interval. That motivation was manifold: continuing rainfall deficits; growing understanding of the climate system causation, predictability, and societal impacts of Soudano-Sahelian drought and rainfall variation; strong evolution toward political and economic reforms; establishment and maturation of regional climate organizations; development of a seasonal forecast process; and everimproving electronic communication technology. To begin bridging this considerable gap between "what is" and "what ought to be," borrowing Glantz's (1977) terminology, Tarhule and Lamb (2003, Fig. 9) proposed a model for climate information flow in West Africa that went beyond what was previously envisioned (e.g., Regional Climate Outlook Forums Review Organizing Committee, RCOFROC, 2001, 132-135). The model recognized more explicitly the need for substantial data acquisition and archiving

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