A slow rainy season onset is a reliable harbinger of drought in most food insecure regions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Examining the Potential Contributions of Extreme “Western V” Sea Surface Temperatures to the 2017 March–June East African Drought

(2019) Chris Funk et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Using out-of-sample yield forecast experiments to evaluate which earth observation products best indicate end of season maize yields

(2019) Frank M Davenport et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The GEOGLAM crop monitor for AMIS: Assessing crop conditions in the context of global markets

(2019) Inbal Becker-Reshef et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Anthropogenic Enhancement of Moderate-to-Strong El Niño Events Likely Contributed to Drought and Poor Harvests in Southern Africa During 2016

(2018) Chris Funk et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Examining the role of unusually warm Indo-Pacific sea surface temperatures in recent African droughts

(2018) C. Funk et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

A land data assimilation system for sub-Saharan Africa food and water security applications

(2017) Amy McNally et al.   Scientific Data

Early assessment of seasonal forage availability for mitigating the impact of drought on East African pastoralists

(2016) Anton Vrieling et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Land Degradation Assessment Using Residual Trend Analysis of GIMMS NDVI3g, Soil Moisture and Rainfall in Sub-Saharan West Africa from 1982 to 2012

(2015) Yahaya Ibrahim et al.   Remote Sensing

The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes

(2015) Chris Funk et al.   Scientific Data

Differences between cropland and rangeland MODIS phenology (start-of-season) in Mali

(2014) Agnes Begue et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

The North American Multimodel Ensemble: Phase-1 Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction; Phase-2 toward Developing Intraseasonal Prediction

(2013) Ben P. Kirtman et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Probabilistic Seasonal Forecasting of African Drought by Dynamical Models

(2013) Xing Yuan et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

A review of continental scale hydrological models and their suitability for drought forecasting in (sub-Saharan) Africa

(2013) P. Trambauer et al.   PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF THE EARTH

When early warning is not enough—Lessons learned from the 2011 Somalia Famine

(2012) Chris Hillbruner et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Variability of African farming systems from phenological analysis of NDVI time series

(2011) Anton Vrieling et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

REVIEW OF SEASONAL CLIMATE FORECASTING FOR AGRICULTURE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

(2011) JAMES W. HANSEN et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AGRICULTURE

Phenology shifts at start vs. end of growing season in temperate vegetation over the Northern Hemisphere for the period 1982-2008

(2011) SU-JONG JEONG et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Inference with dependent data using cluster covariance estimators

(2011) C. Alan Bester et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS

Assessing drought probability for agricultural areas in Africa with coarse resolution remote sensing imagery

(2010) O. Rojas et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Components of rainy seasons’ variability in Equatorial East Africa: onset, cessation, rainfall frequency and intensity

(2009) Pierre Camberlin et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

The Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI): A New Integrated Approach for Monitoring Drought Stress in Vegetation

(2008) Jesslyn F. Brown et al.   GIScience & Remote Sensing

Evaluation of multi-sensor semi-arid crop season parameters based on NDVI and rainfall

(2008) Molly E. Brown et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Phenologically-tuned MODIS NDVI-based production anomaly estimates for Zimbabwe

(2008) Chris Funk et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Predicting the regional onset of the rainy season in West Africa

(2007) P. Laux et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY