REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON Peace-Work-Fatherland NATIONAL OBSERVATORY ON CLIMATE CHANGE DIRECTORATE GENERAL
REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON OBSERVATOIRE NATIONAL SUR LES CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES DIRECTION GENERALE
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BULLETIN N°167
Forecasts and Dekadal Climate Alerts for the Period of 11th to 20th October 2023
11 October, 2023
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Supervision
Prof. Dr. Ing. AMOUGOU Joseph Armathé, General Director of the National Observatory on Climate Change (NOCC) and Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. Ing. . FORGHAB Patrick MBOMBA, Deputy General Director of the National Observatory on Climate Change (NOCC)
# Production Team (NOCC)
Prof. Dr. Ing. AMOUGOU Joseph Armathé, General Director of the National Observatory on Climate Change (NOCC) and Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Yaoundé Geography of the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. Ing. FORGHAB Patrick MBOMBA, Deputy General Director of the National Observatory on Climate Change (NOCC). Dr. BATHA Romain Armand Soleil, Head of The department for the production and dissemination of climate monitoring and warning services (DPDCMWA) ZOUH TEM Isabella, Head of Geomatics Department; Dr. MEYONG René Ramses, Assistant Research Officer N°1 at the department for the production and dissemination of climate monitoring and warning services (DPDCMWA) NDJELA MBEIH Gaston Evariste, Assistant Research Officer N°2 at the department for the production and dissemination of climate monitoring and warning services (DPDCMWA); MESSI AMOUGOU Max, Assistant Research Officer N°1 at the Geomatics Department; ANYE Victorine Ambo, Administrative Staff, NOCC. at the department of Integrated Observations and Climate Change Impact Assessment. ANABA OLOMO Muriel Frédérique, Assistant Research Officer N°2 at the Geomatics Department. MONTHE DJOMO Neily, Technical Staff at NOCC. The department for the production and dissemination of climate monitoring and warning services (DPDCMWA); SOUGA BOYOMO Thomas Magloire, Technical Staff at NOCC, department for the production and dissemination of climate monitoring and warning services(DPDCMWA) OBENEBANGHA BATE MBI. Specialist in Climatology and Biogeography. ELONG Julien Aymar, Administrative Staff at NOCC. Assistant Research Officer No. 2 at the Legal Unit. MEKA ZE Philemon Raïssa, Administrative Staff at NOCC in charge of Translation. Frank Parfait NAMEKONG, Communication and Public Relations Officer.
# I Introduction
This dekadal climate early warning bulletin n° 167 is obtained by exploiting spatial data collected from major international centres involved in day-to-day followup of climate science, notably: the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) of the University of Columbia (USA); the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, USA); AccuWeather (American Weather Forecasting Agency, USA); the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD); Spatial data from 1979 to 2018, relating to Ocean Surface Temperature (OST) in the Atlantic and Pacific, El-Niño/La Nina episode intensities in the Pacific, rainfall and temperature data from local stations. Finally, NOCC would like to express its gratitude to all these international Institutions as well as the National Center for Meteorology for the goodwill demonstrated in sharing data.