Monitoring dry and wet season in South Sudan

My contribution to the World Bank publication Rising from the Depths: Water Security and Fragility in South Sudan, on monitoring the dry and wet seasons

The World Bank has published “Rising from the Depths: Water Security and Fragility in South Sudan”, and I contributed the dry and wet season analysis.

The report looks at how water security and fragility are connected in South Sudan, and where the World Bank Group can use water security to support stability, peace and resilience.

For the analysis we used the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) on CHIRPS precipitation estimates, tracking dry and wet conditions month by month and year by year.

The map below is one example. Severe flooding shows up clearly in the data.

Twelve-month SPI as of July 2020. Blue is wetter than normal, red is drier. The deep blue across eastern South Sudan is the flooding of that year

If you are interested to read the story and report, feel free to visit below:

1. Press release: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2023/03/27/new-report-with-inclusion-and-accountability-water-security-is-key-for-development-and-stability-in-afe-south-sudan
2. Publication: https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/southsudan/publication/rising-from-the-depths-water-security-and-fragility-in-afe-south-sudan
3. Publication: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/91048a50-eacb-5a24-9fa4-30cf8a9a9c9b

Rising from the Depths: Water Security and Fragility in South Sudan, by Edoardo Borgomeo, Claire Chase, Nicolas Salazar Godoy and Victor Osei Kwadwo

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