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Lessons learned from the 1997-98 El Niño: once burned twice shy?
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United Nations Environment Programme
National Center for Atmospheric Research
World Meteorological Organization
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations University

Publication Year
2001
Number of pages
294 p.
This assessment reviewed forecasts and impacts of the 1997-98 El Niño, as well as the climate-related early warning and natural disaster preparedness systems in the following locations in order to improve their ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) and other climate-related coping mechanisms; Cuba, Costa Rica, Panama Canal, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Bangladesh, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. Based on the lessons drawn from these 16 studies, the project identified research and policy needs and presented ideas for developing regional and national disaster preparedness plans for ENSO’s warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña) events and their impacts.
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