At this year's General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), held from 3 to 8 May 2026 in Vienna and online, SPS Blue Nile presents its latest research findings across four contributions – spanning seasonal streamflow forecasting, sediment transport, AI-based weather prediction, and crop

A new peer-reviewed study by SPS Blue Nile researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), published in Frontiers in Climate, presents a deep learning approach to substantially improve seasonal precipitation forecasts for the Blue Nile Basin.

The paper, authored by Rebecca Wiegels

As part of the SPS Blue Nile project, adelphi research has developed a Policy Paper and a Policy Brief examining how climate and weather forecasts are communicated across the Blue Nile River Basin, and how governments, regional organisations and development partners can support existing systems and

The Eastern Nile Basin Research Universities and Centers (ENRUC) network is pleased to announce the organisation of a new webinar episode on the 12 December 2025 at 10:00 am CET on Zoom. This is a joint presentation by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the University of Augsburg, the University

On 27 November 2025, the projects OUTLAST and SPS Blue Nile held their joint final conference at the Gustav Stresemann Institute in Bonn, bringing together researchers, regional representatives, international organisations, donors and practitioners to present and discuss the project’s key results.

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GROW projects SPS Blue Nile and OUTLAST presented cutting-edge seasonal to sub-seasonal (S2S) forecasting techniques at the UN World Climate Summit COP30 in Belém.

On October 17-18, 2025, the SPS Blue Nile project team from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) held its second workshop in collaboration with the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) in Nairobi, where 14 national long-range forecasters from the Greater Horn of Africa were

SPS Blue Nile at EGU 2025 – AI, Hydrology and Climate Resilience in Focus

At this year’s European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, held in Vienna from 28 April to 2 May 2025, the SPS Blue Nile project presented its recent cutting-edge research that bridges artificial intelligence, hydrology

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

The OUTLAST and SPS-Blue Nile research projects were launched this month. Both projects are funded by the BMBF and will run for 3 years.

The OUTLAST project aims to develop the first global, multi-sectoral and operational drought forecasting system to quantify drought hazards and implement it as a