From February 19 to 21, 2025, the SPS Blue Nile project team, in collaboration with the IGAD Climate Prediction and Application Centre (ICPAC), conducted a combined project and technical training workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. The event welcomed 17 experts from weather services, ministries, and

From June 24 to 28, 2024, members of the SPS Blue Nile Team at KIT, in close cooperation with the Centre for Climate Resilience and the Institute of Geography at the University of Augsburg, conducted a training workshop on Earth System Modelling using the WRF-Hydro Modelling System in Addis Ababa

SPS Blue Nile partners, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC), presented forecasts for the June-September rainy season at the climate prediction development workshop preceding this year’s Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF

Prof. Dr. Harald Kunstmann has been awarded the German Hydrology Prize 2024 for his outstanding research achievements in hydrology in German-speaking countries. The prize was presented to the project coordinator of the SPS Blue Nile project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) – a regional organisation focusing on increasing climate resilience in 11 East African countries  – unite their expertise to address the crucial issue of

From 6th to 10th November 2023, the SPS-Blue Nile project commenced with a well-attended in-person meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Building on the GRoW-SaWaM  project's foundation, this event marked the beginning of a concerted effort to develop an advanced meteorological-hydrological forecasting

The official kick-off meeting for the GRoW follow-up project SPS-Blue Nile takes place virtually on 11 May 2023!

SPS-Blue Nile develops a meteorological-hydrological forecasting system for the Blue Nile. It uses variables such as precipitation, water inflow or sediment transport, to predict

The first workshop within the OUTLAST project took place in Göttingen on the 27th and 28th of February 2023! 

Project partners from different universities and institutes participated both in person and virtually. The hybrid two-day workshop focused on the design of a forecasting system. On the