Climformatics is a women-owned company founded by former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) climate modelers, with expertise in oceanography, atmospheric science, computation and risk modeling. We work at the frontiers of climate and weather modeling, data science and AI. We have been recognized by multiple organizations, most recently winning the CALSEED concept award to further validate our solutions for California's energy grid resilience. Currently we are researching on the role of climate change and anomalous climate events on the infectious disease pandemic with a goal to come up with predictions and possible warnings of such outbreaks in the future.
We investigate the linkages between seasonal influenza virus outbreaks and infectious disease pandemics with anomalous climatic conditions and the co-occurrences of global pandemics including the historic Spanish Flu with anomalous climatic conditions like El Nino, La Nina and Marine Heat waves. In this paper we continue our investigation of pandemics and their correlation to large scale anomalous climate events by studying the historical sea surface temperature over the last 100 years and identifying the patterns, persistence of conditions that could have been conducive to the percolation and thriving of infectious disease viruses across the two hemispheres. In particular, we want to identify similar patterns in the future climate model projections to understand the predictability of pandemics using anomalous climate patterns.
