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

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States and Tsegaye Tadesse, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, 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:  Edward Beighley II, Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Joining Forces for Food Security – Linking Earth Observation and Crowd-sourcing for improved Decision-support
Markus Enenkel1, Wouter Dorigo1, Linda M See2, Patrick Vinck3 and Andreas Papp4, (1)Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, (2)IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria, (3)Harvard University, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Doctors without Borders, Delegate and Programme Department, Vienna, Austria
 
Sea Surface Salinity Variability in Response to the Congo River Discharge
Delwyn Moller1, Yi Chao1, John D Farrara2, Guy Schumann3 and Konstantinos Andreadis4, (1)Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Sierra Madre, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Monterey Park, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Environmental modeling in data-sparse regions: Mozambique demonstrator case
Guy Schumann1, Emily Niebuhr2, Kashif Rashid2, Vanessa M Escobar3, Konstantinos Andreadis4, Eni G Njoku4, Jeffrey C Neal5, Nathalie Voisin6, Florian Pappenberger7, Nuttavikhom Phanthuwongpakdee8, Paul D Bates5, Yi Chao9, Delwyn Moller9 and Paolo Paron10, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)United Nations World Food Programme, Rome, Italy, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (6)PNNL, Seattle, WA, United States, (7)European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (8)King's College London, London, United Kingdom, (9)Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Sierra Madre, CA, United States, (10)UNESCO-IHE, Delft, Netherlands
 
CHEMICAL WEATHERING IN THE ZAMBESI BASIN: ASSESMENT OF THE CARBON DIOXYDE COMSUMPTION BY THE KARU BASALT PROVINCE
Patrick T. Seyler1, Jerome Viers2, Sébastien Aries2 and Patricia Fournier2, (1)HydroSciences Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex 05, France, (2)GET Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France
 
Evaluation of the FEERv1.0 Global Top-Down Biomass Burning Emissions Inventory over Africa
Luke Ellison1,2 and Charles M Ichoku1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
 
Future Water Resources Assessment for West African River Basins Under Climate Change, Population Growth and Irrigation Development
Dominik Wisser, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Boubacar Ibrahim, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Alexander A Proussevitch, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
 
Reconciling Past and Future Rainfall Trends over East Africa
Dave Rowell1, Ben Booth1, Sharon E Nicholson2 and Peter Good1, (1)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
 
Hydrological Modelling Improvements Propositions and Applications Results on the Niger River
Salif Kone1,2, Fatogoma Bamba2 and Oumar Soumare2, (1)Université des Sciences Juridiques et Politiques de Bamako, Institut Supérieur de Formation et de Recherche Appliquée (USJPB/ISFRA), Bamako, Mali, (2)Malian National School of Engineers (ENI-ABT), Department of Geology, Bamako, Mali
 
Linking the SASSCAL WeatherNet and data management/rescue activities to provide consistent information for climate change assessments in Southern Africa
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 Juergens1,2, (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), Scientific Coordination, Hamburg, Germany, (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
 
Investigating the Impacts of Surface Temperature Anomalies Due to Wildfires in Northern Sub-Saharan Africa
Trisha Gabbert1, Charles M Ichoku2, Toshihisa Matsui2,3 and William Joseph Capehart4, (1)South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Earth Systems Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (4)South Dakota Sch Mines & Tech, Rapid City, SD, United States
 
Uncertainty Analysis of Historic Water Resources Availability in Africa
Amy McNally1,2, Kristi R Arsenault1,3, Bala Narapusetty1,2 and Christa D Peters-Lidard1, (1)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States, (3)SAIC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Impact of Predicted Changes in Rainfall and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on Maize and Wheat Yields in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia
Alemayehu Muluneh1, Birhanu Biazin2, Leo Stroosnijder1, Woldeamlak Bewket3 and Saskia Keesstra1, (1)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)International Livestock Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (3)Addis Ababa University, Geography and Environmental Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
 
Geostatistical Analysis of Population Density and the Change of Land Cover and Land Use in the Komadugu-Yobe River Basin in Nigeria
Jejung Lee1, Ingrid Tobar2, Forrest Black1 and Rakiya A Babamaaji1, (1)Univ Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States, (2)Environmental Resources Management, Houston, TX, United States
 
The Impact of Biomass Burning on Air Quality and Climate over Northern Sub-Saharan Africa (NSSA)
Richard Damoah1, Luke Ellison1, Charles M Ichoku2 and Jimmy O Adegoke3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States
 
Passive optical remote sensing of Congo River bathymetry using Landsat
Vitoria Ache Rocha Lopes, UFRGS Federal University of Rio Grande du Sul, Rio Grande, Brazil, Mark Trigg, University of Bristol, School of Geography, Bristol, United Kingdom, Fiachra O'Loughlin, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom and Alain Laraque, IRD Institute for Research and Development, Marseille Cedex 02, France
 
Potential Predictabilty of Precipitation in the Horn of Africa in ECHAM5
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
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
Roozbeh Raoufi1, Edward Beighley II1, Hyongki Lee2,3 and Douglas E Alsdorf4, (1)Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States, (2)National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, Houston, TX, United States, (3)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (4)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
 
A Comparative Study of Mesoscale Modeling of Smoke and Dust Direct Radiative Effects over Northern Sub-Saharan African Region.
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, MD, 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.
Stephane Calmant1, Melanie Becker2, Joecila Santos Da Silva3, Taina Conchy3, Vincent Robinet4, Frederique Seyler5 and Laurent Linguet6, (1)IRD, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (2)University of the French West Indies and Guiana, University of the French West Indies and Guiana, Fouillole, Finland, (3)UEA, CESTU, Manaus, Brazil, (4)Université Antilles Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana, (5)Institute of Research for Development, Brest, France, (6)University of French Guiana, Cayenne, French Guiana
 
Wetland Hydraulics along the middle reach of the Congo River revealed by repeat-pass multi-temporal interferometric SAR
Ting Yuan1,2, Hyongki Lee1 and Hahn Chul Jung3, (1)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (2)National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, Houston, TX, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, The Office of Applied Sciences, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Investigating the sources and sinks of water of Congo’s wetlands
Fiachra O'Loughlin, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Rodrigo C. D. Paiva, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, Michael T Durand, Ohio St Univ-Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, Edward Beighley II, Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, 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
 
Long Term Discharge Estimation for Ogoué River Basin
Frederique Seyler, Institute of Research for Development, Brest, France, Laurent Linguet, University of French Guiana, Cayenne, French Guiana and Stephane Calmant, IRD, Toulouse Cedex 09, France
 
Climate Regionalization through Hierarchical Clustering: Options and Recommendations for Africa
Hamada S Badr, Benjamin F Zaitchik and Amin K Dezfuli, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
Water Quality and Sustainable Environmental Health
Shimelis Gebriye Setegn, Florida International Universi, North Miami, FL, United States