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The Climate Hazards Center's "Validation of the CHIRPS satellite rainfall estimates over eastern Africa" has been awarded a certificate of achievement by the Royal Meteorological Society as recognition for high citation numbers. 

IOPScience's Environmental Research Letters, a quarterly peer-reviewed open access journal, publishes "Using out-of-sample yield forecast experiments to evaluate which earth observation products best indicate end of season maize yields" written by Frank Davenport, Laura Harrison, Shraddhanand Shukla, Greg Husak, Chris Funk, and USAID's Amy McNally

The Climate Hazards Center attended the American Geophysical Union's 2019 Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California. CHC team member involvement included poster presentations and larger oral presentations. CHC attendance and participation also included researchers, scientific programmers, and graduate student researchers, all of whom presented on a wide variety of topics, from data sets to applications, thus furthering the CHC's mission to educate an engaged public of the continual dangers posed by climate disasters. 

CM4EW Special Report on Southern Africa
 
In a GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning (CM4EW) Special Report released on November 18th, 2019, the University of California Santa Barbara’s Climate Hazard Center (CHC) helped broadcast an important message about the heightened risk of drought during Southern Africa’s 2019-2020 main cropping season. 

Chris Funk was featured on the "Eyes on Earth" podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change, and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.

The CHC is pleased to announce the launch of a Climate Services journal with Frontiers Science News. Chris Funk serves as Specialty Chief Editor, while Shrad Shukla serves as Founding Associate Editor. 

CHC's Chris Funk and Pete Peterson attend NASA's Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) Science Team Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is an international network of satellites that provide the next-generation global observations of rain and snow. 

The CHC is pleased to share that Associate Researchers Shrad Shukla and Frank Davenport have been selected by NASA as Principal Investigators for the next SERVIR Applied Sciences Team (AST). The Climate Hazards Center is uniquely distinguished in being the only institution within the SERVIR Eastern and Southern Africa Hub & West Africa Hub to receive funding for two projects. 

CHC's Greg Husak and Shrad Shukla attend the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Drought Workshop 2019 in Tempe, Arizona.

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