GC53B:
Climate Variability and the African Environment, Water Resources, and Food Security III Posters

Session ID#: 5189

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States and Tsegaye Tadesse, National Drought Mitigation Center, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, 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:  Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, 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:

 
Joining Forces for Food Security – Linking Earth Observation and Crowd-sourcing for improved Decision-support (2461)
Markus Enenkel, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, Wouter Dorigo, Vienna University of Technology, Department for Geodesy and Geoinformation, Vienna, Austria, Linda M See, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria, Patrick Vinck, Harvard University, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Cambridge, MA, United States and Andreas Papp, Doctors without Borders, Delegate and Programme Department, Vienna, Austria
 
Sea Surface Salinity Variability in Response to the Congo River Discharge (14480)
Delwyn Moller, Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Pasadena, CA, United States, Yi Chao, Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Sierra Madre, CA, United States, John D Farrara, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Guy Schumann, Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Pasadena, United States and Konstantinos Andreadis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States
 
Environmental modeling in data-sparse regions: Mozambique demonstrator case (14716)
Guy Schumann, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Emily Niebuhr, National Weather Service, Anchorage, AK, United States, Kashif Rashid, United Nations World Food Programme, Rome, Italy, Vanessa M Escobar, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington DC, DC, United States, Konstantinos Andreadis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, Eni G Njoku, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Jeffrey C Neal, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, Nathalie Voisin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Florian Pappenberger, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, Nuttavikhom Phanthuwongpakdee, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, Paul D Bates, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, Yi Chao, Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Sierra Madre, CA, United States, Delwyn Moller, Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Pasadena, CA, United States and Paolo Paron, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Water Science and Engineering, Delft, Netherlands
 
Evaluation of the FEERv1.0 Global Top-Down Biomass Burning Emissions Inventory over Africa (20000)
Luke Ellison, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States; Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States and Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Future Water Resources Assessment for West African River Basins Under Climate Change, Population Growth and Irrigation Development (21823)
Dominik Wisser, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Boubacar Ibrahim, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Alexander A Proussevitch, University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States
 
Reconciling Past and Future Rainfall Trends over East Africa (21516)
Dave Rowell1, Ben Booth2, Sharon E Nicholson3 and Peter Good2, (1)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
 
Hydrological Modelling Improvements Propositions and Applications Results on the Niger River (14059)
Salif Kone1,2, Fatogoma Bamba1 and Oumar Soumare1, (1)Malian National School of Engineers (ENI-ABT), Department of Geology, Bamako, Mali, (2)Université des Sciences Juridiques et Politiques de Bamako, Institut Supérieur de Formation et de Recherche Appliquée (USJPB/ISFRA), Bamako, Mali
 
Linking the SASSCAL WeatherNet and data management/rescue activities to provide consistent information for climate change assessments in Southern Africa (24029)
Joerg Helmschrot1,2, Frank Kaspar3, Gerhard Muche1, Thomas Hillmann1, Joseph Kanyanga4, Mompati Butale5, Domingos Nascimento6, Katrin Josenhans1, Edward Falanga4, Francisco Osvaldo Sebastião Neto6, Salome Kruger7 and Norbert Juergens1,8, (1)University of Hamburg, Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology of Plants, Hamburg, Germany, (2)Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL), Windhoek, Namibia, (3)Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Climate Monitoring, Offenbach am Main, Germany, (4)Zambia Meteorological Department (ZMD), Lusaka, Zambia, (5)Department of Meteorological Services (DMS), Gaborone, Botswana, (6)Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia e Geofísica (INAMET), Luanda, Angola, (7)National Botanical Research Institute, Windhoek, Namibia, (8)Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL), Scientific Coordination, Hamburg, Germany
 
Investigating the Impacts of Surface Temperature Anomalies Due to Wildfires in Northern Sub-Saharan Africa (6526)
Trisha Gabbert, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, United States, Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States, Toshihisa Matsui, Earth Systems Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States and William Joseph Capehart, South Dakota Sch Mines & Tech, Rapid City, SD, United States
 
Uncertainty Analysis of Historic Water Resources Availability in Africa (19519)
Amy McNally1,2, Kristi R Arsenault2,3, Bala Narapusetty2,4 and Christa D Peters-Lidard5, (1)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)SAIC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States, (5)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
 
Geostatistical Analysis of Population Density and the Change of Land Cover and Land Use in the Komadugu-Yobe River Basin in Nigeria (25894)
Jejung Lee1, Ingrid Tobar2, Forrest Weston Black3 and Rakiya A Babamaaji3, (1)University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, United States, (2)Environmental Resources Management, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Univ Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States
 
The Impact of Biomass Burning on Air Quality and Climate over Northern Sub-Saharan Africa (NSSA) (28066)
Richard Damoah, Morgan State University, Physics, Baltimore, MD, United States, Luke Ellison, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States and Jimmy O Adegoke, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States
 
Passive optical remote sensing of Congo River bathymetry using Landsat (15518)
Vitoria Ache Rocha Lopes, UFRGS Federal University of Rio Grande du Sul, Rio Grande, Brazil, Mark Adam Trigg, University of Bristol, School of Geography, Bristol, United Kingdom, Fiachra O'Loughlin, University College Dublin, School of Civil Engineering, Dublin, Ireland and Alain Laraque, IRD Institute for Research and Development, Marseille Cedex 02, France
 
Potential Predictabilty of Precipitation in the Horn of Africa in ECHAM5 (10158)
Stephanie Gleixner1,2, Noel S Keenlyside1,2, Shinu Sheela Wilson3 and Ellen Viste2, (1)Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, (2)Geophysical Institute Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (3)Nansen Environmental Research Center, Kochi, India
 
Modelling present and future African climate using CMIP5scenarios in HadGEM2-ES (14618)
Mohamadou Diallo, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Marilia Harumi Shimizu, EPUSP Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo, Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences,, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Victor Nnamdi Dike, Imo State University, Atmospheric Physics Group, Department of Physics, Owerri, Nigeria
 
Characterizing the Role of Lake Storage Dynamics in the Congo River Basin (18589)
Roozbeh Raoufi, Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, 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 and Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States
 
A Comparative Study of Mesoscale Modeling of Smoke and Dust Direct Radiative Effects over Northern Sub-Saharan African Region. (14730)
Yun Yue1, Jun Wang1, Charles M Ichoku2 and Feng Zhang3, (1)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States, (3)CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijng, China
 
Unprecedented Monitoring of the Water Levels in the Ungauged Congo Basin Using Satellite Altimetry. (19656)
Stephane Calmant1, Melanie Becker2, Joecila Santos Da Silva3, Taina Conchy3, Vincent Robinet4, Frederique Seyler5 and Laurent Linguet2, (1)IRD, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (2)University of French Guiana, Cayenne, French Guiana, (3)UEA, CESTU, Manaus, Brazil, (4)Université Antilles Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana, (5)Institute of Research for Development, Brest, France
 
Wetland Hydraulics along the middle reach of the Congo River revealed by repeat-pass multi-temporal interferometric SAR (19964)
Ting Yuan, UCLA Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States; National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, Houston, TX, United States, Hyongki Lee, University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States and Hahn Chul Jung, Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, South Korea
 
Investigating the sources and sinks of water of Congo’s wetlands (21364)
Fiachra O'Loughlin, University College Dublin, School of Civil Engineering, Dublin, Ireland, Rodrigo C. D. Paiva, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, United States, Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, Michael T Durand, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, United States, Stephane Calmant, IRD, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, Hyongki Lee, University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States and Joecila Santos Da Silva, UEA, CESTU, Manaus, Brazil
 
Climate Regionalization through Hierarchical Clustering: Options and Recommendations for Africa (26722)
Hamada S Badr, Benjamin F Zaitchik and Amin K Dezfuli, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
Water Quality and Sustainable Environmental Health (31984)
Shimelis Gebriye Setegn, Florida International Universi, North Miami, FL, United States