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

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Molly Elizabeth Brown, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, Tsegaye Tadesse, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States and Molly Elizabeth Brown, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
African Anthropogenic Combustion Emissions: Estimate of Regional Mortality Attributable to Fine Particle Concentrations in 2030
Cathy Liousse1,2, Laurent Roblou1,2, Eric Assamoi3, Patrick Criqui4, Corinne Galy-Lacaux1,2 and Robert Rosset1,2, (1)CNRS, Toulouse, France, (2)University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (3)Universite Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Laboratoire de Physique de l'Atmosphere, Abidjan, Côte D'ivoire, (4)Université Pierre Mendes France, Economie du développement durable et de l’énergie, Grenoble, France
8:15 AM
 
Trends and Variability in Pastoral Resources in the West African Sahel
Niall P Hanan, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States
8:30 AM
 
A Quantitative Evaluation of the Multiple Narratives of the Recent Sahelian "Re-greening"
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
8:45 AM
 
Exploring Pacific Climate Variability and Its Impacts on East African Water Resources and Food Security
Chris C Funk1, Martin P Hoerling2, Andrew Hoell3, Brant Liebmann2, James P Verdin4 and Gary Eilerts5, (1)USGS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (2)NOAA Boulder, ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)USGS/EROS, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)US Agency for International Development, Famine Early Warning Systems Network, Falls Church, VA, United States
9:00 AM
 
Hydroclimate Forecasts in Ethiopia: Benefits, Impediments, and Ways Forward
Paul J Block, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
9:15 AM
 
What Controls the Hydrodynamics of the Central Congo River?
Fiachra O'Loughlin and Paul D Bates, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
9:30 AM
 
Storage changes over the middle reach of the Congo River: comparison between its upper and lower middle reaches
Hyongki Lee1, Ting Yuan1, Hahn Chul Jung2, Jianbin Duan3, C.K. Shum3 and Edward Beighley II4, (1)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, The Office of Applied Sciences, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (4)Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States
9:45 AM
 
Southern African Ozone Trends (1990-2007): Influences of Climate Variability and Anthropogenic Sources
Nikolay Victor Balashov, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Anne M Thompson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jacqulyn C Witte, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, Stuart Piketh, North-West University, Geography and Environmental Management, Potchefstroom, South Africa, Gerrie J Coetzee, South African Weather Service, Pretoria, South Africa and Valerie Thouret, OMP/CNRS, Toulouse, France