GC42A
Global Change Impacts in West Africa: From Observations and Models to Adaptation Measures I

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
3003 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Dominik Wisser, University of Bonn, Center for Development Research, Bonn, Germany
Conveners:  Jean-Martial Cohard1,2, Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla1 and Jan Henning Sommer3, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States(2)Université de Grenoble - LTHE, Grenoble, France(3)University of Bonn, Center for Development Research, Bonn, Germany
Chairs:  Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla1, Jean-Martial Cohard1, Jan Henning Sommer2 and Dominik Wisser2, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States(2)University of Bonn, Center for Development Research, Bonn, Germany
OSPA Liaisons:  Dominik Wisser, University of Bonn, Center for Development Research, Bonn, Germany
10:20
GC42A-01
AMMA-CATCH a Hydrological, Meteorological and Ecological Long Term Observatory on West Africa : Some Recent Results (Invited) (64858)
Sylvie Galle1, Manuela Grippa2, Christophe Peugeot3, Ibrahim Bouzou Moussa4, Bernard Cappelaere5, Jerome Demarty1, Eric Mougin6, Thierry Lebel7, Véronique Chaffard1 and AMMA-CATCH team, (1)IRD Institute for Research and Development, Marseille Cedex 02, France, (2)CNRS, GET, Toulouse, France, (3)IRD Hydrosciences, Montpellier, France, (4)University Abdou Moumouni, Niamey, Niger, (5)GET Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, toulouse, France, (6)GET Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (7)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
10:35
GC42A-02
Recent Trends in the Regime of Extreme Rainfall in the West African Sahel (Invited) (66164)
Thierry Lebel, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States; Université de Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
10:50
GC42A-03
Groundwater recharge in the tropics: a pan-African analysis of observations (Invited) (60009)
Richard G Taylor, University College London, London, United Kingdom
11:05
GC42A-04
Impact of climate on groundwater recharge in the crystalline basement rocks aquifer of Northern Ghana (72238)
Kouakou Valentin Koffi, West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, Climate change and Water Resources, Abomey-Calavi, Benin
11:20
GC42A-05
Projecting Future Land Use Changes in West Africa Driven by Climate and Socioeconomic Factors: Uncertainties and Implications for Adaptation (Invited) (58491)
Guiling Wang1, Kazi F Ahmed1 and Liangzhi You2, (1)University of Connecticut, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs, CT, United States, (2)International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States
11:35
GC42A-06
Regional Climate Modeling of West African Summer Monsoon Climate: Impact of Historical Boundary Forcing (67878)
Ibourahima Kebe, West Africa Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adaptation Land Use, West African Climate System, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
11:50
GC42A-07
NIDWat: A Water Balance Model for the Niger Inland Delta (NID) Floodplain in Mali (68779)
Ibrahim Moussa, AGRHYMET Regional Center, Research and Training / WASCAL program, Niamey, Niger, Dominik Wisser, University of Bonn, Center for Development Research, Bonn, Germany, Abdou Ali, AGRHYMET Regional Center, Niamey, Niger, Ousmane Seidou, University of Ottawa, Department of Civil Engineering, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Adama Mariko, Ecole Nationale d`Ingenieurs, Bamako, Mali, Geologie, Bamako, Mali and Abel Afouda, West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL); Graduate Research Program of, Cotonou, Benin
12:05
GC42A-08
Amount, determining factors and spatial distribution of soil organic carbon storage in the Dano catchment (Southwest Burkina-Faso) (72578)
Ozias Hounkpatin1, Felix Op de Hipt1, Aymar Y. Bossa2, Gerd Welp1 and Wulf Amelung1, (1)University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, (2)West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use—WASCAL, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
 
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