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