Early warning of food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring predictors beyond traditionally used seasonal rainfall forecasts
Shraddhanand Shukla1, Gregory J Husak1, Daniel McEvoy2, Kristi R Arsenault3, Will Turner4, Laura Harrison5, Dr. Frank Davenport IV, PhD6, Martin Francis Landsfeld7, Amy McNally8, Christopher Funk9 and Christa D Peters-Lidard10, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)Desert Research Institute, Reno, United States, (3)SAIC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Climate Hazards Center, Santa Barbara, United States, (5)University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (6)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (7)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Group, Santa Barbara, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (9)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States, (10)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
