GC51F:
Climate Variability and the African Environment, Water Resources, and Food Security I

Session ID#: 2423

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3003 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Molly Elizabeth Brown, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States and Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States
Primary Convener:  Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States
Co-conveners:  Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, Tsegaye Tadesse, National Drought Mitigation Center, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, United States and Molly Elizabeth Brown, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1878 Water/energy interactions [HYDROLOGY]
9305 Africa [GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Global Change: Science Literacy, Societal Impacts, and Response Strategies

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

GC51F-01
African Anthropogenic Combustion Emissions: Estimate of Regional Mortality Attributable to Fine Particle Concentrations in 2030 (Invited) (4805)
Cathy Liousse1,2, Laurent Roblou2,3, Eric Assamoi4, Patrick Criqui5, Corinne Galy-Lacaux3,6 and Robert Rosset2,3, (1)Laboratoire d'Aérologie - Observatoire Midi Pyrénées / CNRS, Toulouse, France, (2)University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (3)CNRS, Toulouse, France, (4)Universite Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Laboratoire de Physique de l'Atmosphere, Abidjan, Côte D'ivoire, (5)Université Pierre Mendes France, Economie du développement durable et de l’énergie, Grenoble, France, (6)University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Toulouse, France
GC51F-02
Trends and Variability in Pastoral Resources in the West African Sahel (Invited) (2488)
Niall P Hanan, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, United States
GC51F-03
A Quantitative Evaluation of the Multiple Narratives of the Recent Sahelian "Re-greening" (27838)
Alessandra Giannini, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Mary-Mildred "Mimi" Stith, Boston University, Department of Anthropology, Boston, MA, United States
GC51F-04
Exploring Pacific Climate Variability and Its Impacts on East African Water Resources and Food Security (Invited) (2489)
Chris C Funk1, Martin P Hoerling2, Andrew Hoell3, Brant Liebmann2, James P Verdin4 and Gary Eilerts5, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, United States, (2)NOAA Boulder, ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)University of Maryland, Boulder, United States, (5)US Agency for International Development, Famine Early Warning Systems Network, Falls Church, VA, United States
GC51F-05
Hydroclimate Forecasts in Ethiopia: Benefits, Impediments, and Ways Forward (Invited) (2829)
Paul J Block, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States
GC51F-06
What Controls the Hydrodynamics of the Central Congo River? (Invited) (4784)
Fiachra O'Loughlin, University College Dublin, School of Civil Engineering, Dublin, Ireland and Paul D Bates, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom
GC51F-07
Storage changes over the middle reach of the Congo River: comparison between its upper and lower middle reaches (Invited) (4743)
Hyongki Lee1, Ting Yuan2, Hahn Chul Jung3, Jianbin Duan4, C.K. Shum4 and Edward Beighley5, (1)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (2)UCLA Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, (4)Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (5)Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, United States
GC51F-08
Southern African Ozone Trends (1990-2007): Influences of Climate Variability and Anthropogenic Sources (10746)
Nikolay Balashov, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, Anne W Thompson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jacqulyn C Witte, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Lanham, MD, United States, Stuart Piketh, North-West University, Unit for Environmental Science and Management, Potchefstroom, South Africa, Gerrie J Coetzee, South African Weather Service, Pretoria, South Africa and Valerie Thouret, OMP/CNRS, Toulouse, France
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