Bridging the gap between climate information producers and users

We will briefly describe the experience we had with the first series of webinars organized by the Drought Information System for southern South America. 


Bur first of all, who are we? 

  • Drought Information System for southern South America (SISSA for the Spanish acronym).
  • Developed by six member countries of the Regional Climate Center for Southern South America. Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay.
    • Drought was identified as the main hazard among all six countries.
What are our objectives?

  • Improve institutional capacities to produce and share timely, relevant and actionable information on droughts in southern South America.
  • Disseminate SISSA activities and raise awareness among authorities and actors in sectors sensitive to drought about the importance of planning and proactive preparation prior to the occurrence of droughts.
Training

  • The complexity of drought requires a broad spectrum of talents and disciplines to study and manage it.
  • Main training focus: producers and disseminators of information on drought and mitigation of its impacts.
  • Personnel of Meteorological Services, Ministries of Agriculture, Research Institutes
  • Civil sector organizations (farmer organizations, cooperatives).
  • Online webinars (4).
  • Strategic partnership: Regional Training Center from Argentina. 
Online webinars

  • Direct contact with potential users
  • Different topics
    • Introduction to the API developed by SISSA
    • Drought hazard probabilistic assessment.
    • Virtual tour of the webpage
  • Reach an interdisciplinary audience to cover most of the areas that are related to drought.
  • Each webinar was divided into halves.
  • Introduction mainly unidirectional
  • An open discussion followed with attendees

We have prepared some slides with links to the resources we used and the videos of the different webinars that are available on YouTube. Feel free to contact us if interested: boccoalessio@gmail.com

Slides: https://etrp.wmo.int/pluginfile.php/41008/mod_page/content/15/Presentacion%20CALMET.pdf


Thank you very much!!!

Última modificación: jueves, 30 de septiembre de 2021, 22:02