GC52B:
Climate Variability and the African Environment, Water Resources, and Food Security II

Session ID#: 5188

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3003 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, United States and Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, 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 and Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Molly Elizabeth Brown, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, 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:

Reconstitution of a Continuous Climatic and Rainfall Series for the Central Sahel (1950-2012): Data, Methodology and Application (9277)
Jerome Demarty1, Crystele Leauthaud2, Bernard Cappelaere3, Theo Vischel4, Françoise Guichard5, Laurent Kergoat6, Grippa Manuela6, Frédéric Hourdin7 and Benjamin Sultan8, (1)IRD, Hydrosciences, Montpellier, France, (2)CNRS, Hydrosciences, Montpellier, France, (3)IRD Hydrosciences, Montpellier, France, (4)CNRS-INSU, IGE, Grenoble, France, (5)CNRM, Toulouse, France, (6)GET Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (7)LMD/IPSL/CNRS/UPMC, Paris, France, (8)IRD-LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France
What Controls Runoff Ratios in the Congo Basin? (16351)
Rui Wei, Ohio State University, Columbus, United States and Michael T Durand, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States
Quantifying the Resilience of Vegetation and Soil Moisture During Dry Spells Using Satellite Remote Sensing (18947)
Dimitrios Stampoulis1, Konstantinos Andreadis2, Stephanie L Granger3, Joshua B Fisher4, Ali Behrangi4, Narendra N Das5 and Joe J Turk6, (1)Arizona State University, Future H2O, Knowledge Enterprise Development, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, (3)NASA Western Water Applications Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycle Group, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Linking Remote Sensing Data and Energy Balance Models for a Scalable Agriculture Insurance System for sub-Saharan Africa (16445)
Molly Elizabeth Brown, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Daniel E Osgood, Columbia University of New York, International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Palisades, NY, United States, Jessica McCarty, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, Gregory J Husak, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Christopher S R Neigh, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Seasonal Prediction of Hydro-Climatic Extremes in the Greater Horn of Africa Under Evolving Climate Conditions to Support Adaptation Strategies (7390)
Tsegaye Tadesse1, Benjamin F Zaitchik2, Shahid Habib3, Chris C Funk4, Gabriel B Senay5, Tufa Dinku6, Frederick S Policelli7, Paul J Block8, Guillermo A Baigorria9, Shimelis Beyene9, Brian Wardlow10 and Michael J Hayes11, (1)National Drought Mitigation Center, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (5)U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, United States, (6)Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (8)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States, (9)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (10)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, United States, (11)Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States
Fire-Induced Variation of Essential Climate Variables in Northern Sub-Saharan Africa (16330)
Charles M Ichoku1, Luke Ellison2, Kathleen Elena Willmot3, Charles K Gatebe4, Toshihisa Matsui5, Jun Wang6, Churchill Okonkwo7, Richard Damoah8, Jejung Lee9, Jimmy O Adegoke10, John D Bolten11, Frederick S Policelli12, Eric M Wilcox13 and Shahid Habib5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (7)Howard University, Atmospheric Sciences, Washington, DC, United States, (8)Morgan State University, Physics, Baltimore, MD, United States, (9)University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, United States, (10)University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States, (11)Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, United States, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (13)Desert Research Institute, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Reno, United States
Opportunities for Hydrologic Research in the Congo Basin (6479)
Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, United States, Hyongki Lee, University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, Raphael Muamba Tshimanga, University of Kinshasa, Congo Basin Water Resources Research Center (CRREBaC) & Dept. Natural Resources Management, Kinshasa, Congo, Robert G Spencer, Florida State University, Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Fiachra O'Loughlin, University College Dublin, School of Civil Engineering, Dublin, Ireland