GC41B
Climate Variability and the African Environment, Water Resources, and Food Security I Posters

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 08:00-12:20
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, Tsegaye Tadesse, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States and Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States
Chairs:  Tsegaye Tadesse, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States and Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
 
Synchrony of trend shifts in Sahel summer rainfall and global oceanic evaporation, 1950–2012 (59393)
Alima Diawara, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States, Yoshihiro Tachibana, Fac. of Bioresources, Mie Univ, Mie-Ken, Japan, Kazuhiro Oshima, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology, Yokosuka, Japan, Hatsumi Nishikawa, Mie University, Tsu, Japan and Yuta Ando, Mie University, Weather and Climate Dynamics Division, Tsu, Japan
 
What is the role of historical anthropogenically-induced land-cover change on the surface climate of West Africa? Results from the LUCID intercomparison project (61893)
Sy Souleymane, Organization Not Listed, Cheikh Anta Diop University Dakar Senegal, Washington, DC, United States; LOCEAN-IPSL UPMC Paris France, Paris Cedex 05, France
 
Past Hydrological Variability in the Congo Basin inferred from Neodymium Isotopes (72304)
Germain Bayon, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
 
Reconstructing Hydrological Seasonality in the Oubangui River (Congo basin, Africa) Through Stable Isotope Data in Freshwater Bivalve Shells (79036)
Zita Kelemen1, David P Gillikin2, Lauren E Graniero3, Holly Havel2, Athanase Yambélé4, Daan Vanhove1 and Steven Bouillon1, (1)KU Leuven, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium, (2)Union College, Geology, Schenectady, NY, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Geology, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (4)Direction de la Météorologie Nationale, Service de l'Agrométéorologie et de Climatologie, Bangui, Central African Republic
 
Cropland land surface phenology and seasonality in East Africa: Ethiopia, Tanzania, and South Sudan (65127)
Woubet G. Alemu, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States and Geoffrey M Henebry, South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, Brookings, SD, United States
 
Impacts of Biomass Burning on the Land Use / Land Cover Dynamics in Northern Sub-Saharan Africa and Associated Alteration of Local Emission Rates (65303)
Luke Ellison and Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Investigating the Impacts of Surface Temperature Anomalies due to Burned Area Albedo in Northern sub-Saharan Africa (66083)
Trisha Gabbert1, Toshihisa Matsui2, William Joseph Capehart3 and Charles M Ichoku2, (1)South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)South Dakota Sch Mines & Tech, Rapid City, SD, United States
 
Impacts of Climate Change/Variability and Human Activities on Contemporary Vegetation Productivity across Africa (68797)
Sabastine Ugbemuna Ugbaje1,2, Inakwu Akots Odeh3 and Thomas Bishop3, (1)University of Sydney, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Sydney, Australia, (2)Ahmadu Bello University, Soil Science, Zaria, Nigeria, (3)University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
 
Slopes, Fans, Terraces and their Soils - A three Systems Approach for Estimating Future Climate and Land-Use Change (72235)
Joerg Voelkel, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
 
Using remote sensing to monitor surface freshwater storage in the Congo basin (79416)
Simon Bejannin1, Melanie Becker1, Fabrice Papa1, Frederic Frappart1, Stephane Calmant2 and Joecila Santos Da Silva3, (1)LEGOS Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, Toulouse, France, (2)IRD, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (3)UEA, CESTU, Manaus, Brazil
 
A Multivariate Analysis of Freshwater Variability over West Africa (62238)
Samuel Ato Andam-Akorful1, Xiufeng He2, Vagner G Ferreira2 and Jonathan A Quaye-Ballard1, (1)Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, (2)Hohai University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing, China
 
Effect of biomass burning on surface ozone: A case study in 2010 over Northern Sub-Saharan Africa (NSSA) (69569)
Richard Damoah, Charles Ichuku and Luke Ellison, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Biomass Burning Effects on the Western Africa Climate: the NASA-Unified WRF Simulation for 9–16 August 2006 during the AMMA Special Observing (69997)
Takamichi Iguchi, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Effect of wildfires on surface reflectance from a savanna ecosystem (72874)
Rajesh Poudyal, SSAI, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Charles K Gatebe, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Efforts to Unravel the Cause of Shrinkage of Lake Chad: Development of Hydrologic Real-time Observatory Network in the Lake Chad Basin (73460)
Jejung Lee1, Charles M Ichoku2, John D Bolten2, Frederick S Policelli2, Kim-Ndor Djimadoumngar1, Sanusi Imran Abdullahi3, Mohammed D Bila3, Daira Djoret3, Goni Ibrahim4, John S Selker5, Rebecca Hochreutener5 and Frank O Annor6, (1)University of Missouri Kansas City, Geosciences, Kansas City, MO, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Lake Chad Basin Commission, N'Djamena, Chad, (4)University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria, (5)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (6)TU Delft, Civil Engineering & Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands
 
LIS-HYMAP coupled Hydrological Modeling in the Nile River Basin and the Greater Horn of Africa (74545)
Hahn Chul Jung, Augusto Getirana and Frederick S Policelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
An Investigation of the Hydroclimate Variability of Eastern Africa (78831)
Kara A Smith, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States and Fredrick H.M. Semazzi, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States
 
The Impact of Desert Dust Aerosol Radiative Forcing on Global and West African Precipitation (79300)
Asha Jordan, Benjamin F Zaitchik, Anand Gnanadesikan and Amin K Dezfuli, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
Opportunities for Enhancing Seasonal Prediction in Ethiopia and Challenges in Addressing Sectoral Needs (79430)
Meron Teferi Taye, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium and Paul Block, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States
 
Mesoscale Modeling of Smoke Particles Distribution and Their Radiative Feedback over Northern Sub-Saharan African Region (81172)
Yun Yue1, Jun Wang1, Charles M Ichoku2 and Luke Ellison2, (1)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Scenario-neutral Food Security Risk Assessment: A livestock Heat Stress Case Study (86023)
Balaji Rajagopalan and Daniel Broman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Exploring Agro-Climatic Trends in Ethiopia Using CHIRPS (86721)
Diego H Pedreros, U.S. Geological Survey EROS Center / FEWS NET, Sioux Falls, United States and Climate Hazards Group (CHG), University of California Santa Barbara
 
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