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This fact sheet describes a predictive failure regarding Hurricane John in 2006, where official forecasts failed to predict the storm's actual path through the Baja California peninsula, resulting in five deaths. The document attributes these errors to a critical lack of upper air sounding data and divergence between numerical models.

The Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) provides a progress report to the Conference of the Parties (CoP) as of June 2015. The report emphasizes the IAI's unique interdisciplinary model combining social and natural sciences to create policy-relevant solutions, while highlighting a critical regional lack of data infrastructure and the need for better integration of social scientists from the start of research projects.

This policy brief outlines the sensitivity of Uganda's agriculture-dependent economy to rainfall fluctuations and highlights the systemic lack of accurate, long-term meteorological data due to infrastructure and personnel deficits. It introduces a study on climate trends and projections in Bundibugyo, Gulu, and Kotido as part of the Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) project.