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Tools To Predict Climate Patterns
posted (November 27, 2017)
Climate Change professionals were at the George Price Center in Belmopan today discussing approaches and tools that can be used to analyze and predict climate patterns. Now it's more complex than what you see on the weather report. One of the facilitators told us today about a new system they came up with that will be beneficial to Farmers.

Ulric Trotz, Deputy Ececutive Director Scienve Advisor
"We've been doing this workshops around the region and this one is for Belize and what it does is basically teaching our technical people across the different sectors: agriculture, coastal development, heath, tourism to use climate information that we're generating to make decisions about how they build and how they operate in the future. We have generated a lot of information about the region in terms of what the future climate would be like - how much more rainfall, how much less rainfall, how stronger storms etc., and we are now reaching people how to use that climate information for future planning."

"Just to give you an example one of the tools that we've develop, it's a drought prediction tool, so that practitioners will get an early warning that look the rain is not going to fall when we expect it and we're going into an extended period of drought. So farmers will be alerted how to make adjustments in their planting schedule etc., in anticipation of the drought and they wouldn't just plant and suffer losses, because they didn't know."

Courtney Weatherburne, reporter
"So that's a new system you guys are looking at?"

Ulric Trotz
"Oh yes. All this work is very new. We really are trying to help the Caribbean to anticipate the new regime of climate that we are going to face."

It is a two week workshop . These sessions have been held in Guyana , St. Kitts and Nevis and Barbados this year.

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