Seasonal Scale Water Deficit Forecasting in East Africa and the Middle East Region Using the NMME Models Forecasts

Shraddhanand Shukla1, Chris C Funk1, Benjamin F Zaitchik2, Bala Narapusetty3, Kristi R Arsenault4 and Christa D Peters-Lidard5, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrologic Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States