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