http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Tue, 21 May 2013 15:39:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/12/11/poor-ethiopian-farmers-receive-unprecedented-insurance-payout/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/12/11/poor-ethiopian-farmers-receive-unprecedented-insurance-payout/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:49:59 +0000 Francesco Fiondella http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=32862 Thanks to a groundbreaking new program that relies on advanced satellite technology, a weather index insurance payout of unprecedented scale will benefit poor African farmers.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/12/11/poor-ethiopian-farmers-receive-unprecedented-insurance-payout/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/12/03/managing-hazard-risk-and-weather-extremes-at-agu/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/12/03/managing-hazard-risk-and-weather-extremes-at-agu/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:04:08 +0000 Courtney St. John http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=32719 Researchers from the Earth Institute's Center for Research on Environmental Decisions will present their work at the 2012 American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco this week. Psychology doctoral candidate Katherine Thompson will present a poster entitled “The Psychology of Hazard Risk Perception”; and visiting research scholar Diana Reckien will present a poster entitled “Realities of Weather Extremes on Daily Life in Urban India—How Quantified Impacts Infer Sensible Adaptation Options.”]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/12/03/managing-hazard-risk-and-weather-extremes-at-agu/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/06/climate-services-global-framework/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/06/climate-services-global-framework/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:00:35 +0000 Francesco Fiondella http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=23422 Jerry Lengoasa, Deputy Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization -- How do we bridge the gap between those who have the knowledge and those who don't, those who have the capacity and those who don't have the capacity, and the capability?]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/06/climate-services-global-framework/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/10/winter-extremes-so-last-year/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/10/winter-extremes-so-last-year/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:12:06 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=19924 What are the odds that this winter will be as snowy as the last two? Climate scientist Jason Smerdon and tree-ring scientist Rosanne D’Arrigo are working on an answer, looking at the long-term history of two important weather patterns—the North Atlantic Oscillation and La Niña state in the tropical Pacific—that similar to last year could collide this winter across the northeast. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/10/winter-extremes-so-last-year/feed/ 1