Helen Greatrix

Assistant Professor of Remote Sensing and Geo-statistics

Helen Greatrix

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Rainfall Monitoring Climate Insurance Africa Risk Management Index Equity Weather Drought Agriculture Rain Coronavirus Insurance Risk Disaster Satellites Social Equities Calibration Pandemics Social Equity Temperature Satellite Data Livelihood Product Distribution

Most Recent Publications

An Information-Theoretic Approach to Reconciling Historical Climate Observations and Impacts on Agriculture

Max Mauerman, Emily Black, Victoria L. Boult, Rahel Diro, Dan Osgood, Helen Greatrex, Thabbie Chillongo, 2022, Weather, Climate, and Society on p. 1321-1337

Causal Chains Linking Weather Hazards to Disasters in Somalia

Tatiana Gumucio, Helen Greatrex, Erin Lentz, 2022, Weather, Climate, and Society on p. 849-860

Flood Risk and Monitoring Data for Preparedness and Response: From Availability to Use

Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Mélody Braun, Shanna McClain, Helen Greatrex, Lace Padilla, Laura Hoffman-Hernandez, 2021, on p. 289-306

Pan-African evolution of within- And between-country COVID-19 dynamics

P Ssentongo, C Fronterre, Andrew Geronimo, Steven J. Greybush, P Mbabazi, J Muvawala, S Nahalamba, P Omadi, B Opar, S Sinnar, Y Wang, A Whalen, L Held, C Jewell, Abraham J.B. Muwanguzi, Muwanguzi AJB, Helen Greatrex, M Norton, P Diggle, S Schiff, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

The spatial correlation structure of rainfall at the local scale over southern Ghana

Jennifer Israelsson, Emily Black, Cláudia Neves, Francis Feehi Torgbor, Helen Greatrex, Michael Tanu, Patrick Nii Lante Lamptey, 2020, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies on p. 100720

TAMSAT

Ross Maidment, Emily Black, Helen Greatrex, Matthew Young, 2020, on p. 393-407

Verification of Operational Numerical Weather Prediction Model Forecasts of Precipitation Using Satellite Rainfall Estimates over Africa

Y. Wang, S. Greybush, M. Gueye, Helen Greatrex, F. Zhang, G. Jenkins, 2020, on p. H082-07

TAMSAT

Ross Maidment, Emily Black, Helen Greatrex, Matthew Young, 2020, on p. 393-407

Index insurance and climate risk management: Addressing social equity

Eleanor Fisher, Jon Hellin, Helen Greatrex, Nathaniel Jensen, 2019, ODI Review on p. 581-602

Index Insurance and Climate Risk Management: Addressing Social Equity

Eleanor Fisher, Jon Hellin, Helen Greatrex, Nathaniel Jensen, 2018, Development Policy Review on p. 581-602

Most-Cited Papers

A new, long-term daily satellite-based rainfall dataset for operational monitoring in Africa

Ross I. Maidment, David Grimes, Emily Black, Elena Tarnavsky, Matthew Young, Helen Greatrex, Richard P. Allan, Thorwald Stein, Edson Nkonde, Samuel Senkunda, Edgar Misael Uribe Alcántara, 2017, Scientific data

Evaluation of satellite-based and model re-analysis rainfall estimates for Uganda

R. I. Maidment, D. I.F. Grimes, R. P. Allan, H. Greatrex, O. Rojas, O. Leo, 2013, Meteorological Applications on p. 308-317

Impact of progressive global warming on the global-scale yield of maize and soybean

Gillian Rose, Tom Osborne, Helen Greatrex, Tim Wheeler, 2016, Climatic Change on p. 417-428

The use of remotely sensed rainfall for managing drought risk: A case study of weather index insurance in Zambia

Emily Black, Elena Tarnavsky, Ross Maidment, Helen Greatrex, Agrotosh Mookerjee, Tristan Quaife, Matthew Brown, 2016, Remote Sensing on p. 342

Index insurance and climate risk management: Addressing social equity

Eleanor Fisher, Jon Hellin, Helen Greatrex, Nathaniel Jensen, 2019, ODI Review on p. 581-602

Incorporating satellite data into weather index insurance

Emily Black, Helen Greatrex, Matthew Young, Ross Maidment, 2016, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society on p. ES203-ES206

Hydrological modelling using ensemble satellite rainfall estimates in a sparsely gauged river basin: The need for whole-ensemble calibration

J. Christopher Skinner, J. Timothy Bellerby, Helen Greatrex, David F.D. Grimes, 2015, Journal of Hydrology on p. 110-122

Pan-African evolution of within- And between-country COVID-19 dynamics

P Ssentongo, C Fronterre, Andrew Geronimo, Steven J. Greybush, P Mbabazi, J Muvawala, S Nahalamba, P Omadi, B Opar, S Sinnar, Y Wang, A Whalen, L Held, C Jewell, Abraham J.B. Muwanguzi, Muwanguzi AJB, Helen Greatrex, M Norton, P Diggle, S Schiff, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Advances in the stochastic modeling of satellite-derived rainfall estimates using a sparse calibration dataset

Helen Greatrex, David Grimes, Tim Wheeler, 2014, Journal of Hydrometeorology on p. 1810-1831

Erratum: A new, long-term daily satellite-based rainfall dataset for operational monitoring in Africa

Ross I. Maidment, David Grimes, Emily Black, Elena Tarnavsky, Matthew Young, Helen Greatrex, Richard P. Allan, Thorwald Stein, Edson Nkonde, Samuel Senkunda, Edgar Misael Uribe Alcántara, 2017, Scientific data on p. 170082