Codes used in the article "Seasonal Forecasting of East African Short Rains" by Tefera et al., 2025.

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FILE DESCRIPTION Preprocess.ipynb: This Jupyter notebook preprocesses the raw netcdf files taken from the Copenicus Climate Change database to produce a reduced set of files and variables that are analyzed using a separate code. Calculations.py: This file contains the Python code used to produce climatologies, anomalies, correlations, and other statistics shown in the article. Figures.ipynb: This Jupyter notebook produces all the visuals presented in the article.

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