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

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Edward Beighley II, Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States and Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, 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 and Edward Beighley II, Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Molly Elizabeth Brown, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
GC52B-01
 
Reconstitution of a Continuous Climatic and Rainfall Series for the Central Sahel (1950-2012): Data, Methodology and Application
Jerome Demarty1, Crystele Leauthaud2, Bernard Cappelaere1, Theo Vischel3, Françoise Guichard4, Laurent Kergoat5, Grippa Manuela5, Frederic Hourdin6 and Benjamin Sultan7, (1)IRD Hydrosciences, Montpellier, France, (2)CNRS, Hydrosciences, Montpellier, France, (3)CNRS-INSU, LTHE, Grenoble, France, (4)CNRM, Toulouse, France, (5)GET Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (6)LMD/IPSL/CNRS/UPMC, Paris, France, (7)IRD-LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France
10:35 AM
GC52B-02
 
Inter-annual and Intra-annual Variability in River Flow and Inundation in African River Systems: Results from a new pan-African Land-surface Model Validated against Earth Observations
Simon J Dadson, Univ Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
10:50 AM
GC52B-03
 
What Controls Runoff Ratios in the Congo Basin?
Rui Wei, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States and Michael T Durand, Ohio St Univ-Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States
11:05 AM
GC52B-04
 
Quantifying the Resilience of Vegetation and Soil Moisture During Dry Spells Using Satellite Remote Sensing
Dimitrios Stampoulis, Konstantinos Andreadis, Stephanie L Granger, Joshua B Fisher, Ali Behrangi, Narendra N Das and Joseph Turk, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
11:20 AM
GC52B-05
 
Linking Remote Sensing Data and Energy Balance Models for a Scalable Agriculture Insurance System for sub-Saharan Africa
Molly Elizabeth Brown1, Daniel E Osgood2, Jessica L McCarty3, Gregory J Husak4, Christopher Hain5 and Christopher S R Neigh1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Houghton, MI, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (5)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States
11:35 AM
GC52B-06
 
Seasonal Prediction of Hydro-Climatic Extremes in the Greater Horn of Africa Under Evolving Climate Conditions to Support Adaptation Strategies
Tsegaye Tadesse1, Benjamin F Zaitchik2, Shahid Habib3, Chris C Funk4, Gabriel B Senay5, Tufa Dinku6, Frederick S Policelli3, Paul Block7, Guillermo A Baigorria8, Shimelis Beyene8, Brian Wardlow8 and Michael J Hayes9, (1)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (5)USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (6)Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (7)University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (8)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (9)Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States
11:50 AM
GC52B-07
 
Fire-Induced Variation of Essential Climate Variables in Northern Sub-Saharan Africa
Charles M Ichoku1, Luke Ellison2, Kathleen Elena Willmot3, Charles K Gatebe4, Toshihisa Matsui2, Jun Wang5, Churchill Okonkwo6, Richard Damoah2, Jejung Lee7, Jimmy O Adegoke8, John D Bolten9, Frederick S Policelli2, Eric M Wilcox10 and Shahid Habib2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, (4)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (6)Howard University, Atmospheric Sciences, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Univ Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States, (8)University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States, (9)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States
12:05 PM
GC52B-08
 
Opportunities for Hydrologic Research in the Congo Basin
Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, Edward Beighley II, Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States, Hyongki Lee, University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, Raphael Tshimanga, University of Kinshasa, Dept. Natural Resources Management, Kinshasa, Congo, Robert G Spencer, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States and Fiachra O'Loughlin, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
 
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