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

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Session ID#: 14116

Session Description:
Over the past several decades, various parts of Africa have been impacted by droughts and/or flooding to varying degrees of severity related to local sensitivity to complex interactions and feedbacks between land-cover/land-use change, rainfall variability, surface and ground-water dynamics, river and floodplain interactions, atmospheric circulation patterns, as well as local and transported aerosol and greenhouse gas emissions. Possible impacts include increasing uncertainty of food security and complexity of environmental decision-making. Reliable climate prediction on seasonal-to-decadal timescales based on improved understanding of various physical mechanisms and their spatiotemporal scales of variability will help mitigate their environmental and socio-economic impacts, and enhance sustainable livelihood, especially water availability and food security. This session encourages interdisciplinary studies aimed at unraveling the links between various environmental phenomena and their associated processes and outcomes, including societal impacts. We welcome research and applications based on all types of observational, analysis, and modeling resources
Primary Convener:  Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Robinson M Mugo, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya, Tsegaye Tadesse, National Drought Mitigation Center, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, United States and Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, United States
Chairs:  Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States and Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson, McGill University, Natural Resource Sciences, Montreal, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Tsegaye Tadesse, National Drought Mitigation Center, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, United States
Index Terms:

0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1878 Water/energy interactions [HYDROLOGY]
9305 Africa [GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Estimating the Impact and Spillover Effect of Climate Change on Crop Yield in Northern Ghana. (117912)
Ebo Botchway, Universita Degli Studi Di Milano, Economics, Milano, Italy
New Landsat derived cropland mask for Tanzania using 2010-2013 time series and decision tree classifier methods. (119445)
Christina Jade Justice, University of Maryland, Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States
Opportunities for Hydrologic Research in the Congo Basin (121633)
Douglas E Alsdorf1, Edward Beighley2, Alain Laraque3, Hyongki Lee4, Raphael Muamba Tshimanga5, Fiachra O'Loughlin6, Gil Marie Mahe7, Bienvenu Jean Dinga8, Guy Moukandi3 and Rob Spencer9, (1)Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, United States, (3)GET Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, UMR CNRS/IRD/UPS, UMR 5563 du CNRS, UR 234 de l’IRD, OMP, Toulouse, France, (4)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (5)University of Kinshasa, Congo Basin Water Resources Research Center (CRREBaC) & Dept. Natural Resources Management, Kinshasa, Congo, (6)University College Dublin, School of Civil Engineering, Dublin, Ireland, (7)Research Institute for Development, MONTPELLIER, France, (8)Institute de Recherche en Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, Brazzaville, Congo, (9)Florida State University, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States
Characterizing the Responses of Land Surface Phenology to the Rainy Season in the Congo Basin (131390)
Dong Yan, China Renewable Energy Engineering Institute, Information and Data Center, Beijing, China, Xiaoyang Zhang, South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence (GSCE), Department of Geography & Geospatial Sciences, Brookings, United States, Yunyue Yu, NOAA, STAR, College Park, MD, United States and Wei Guo, IMSG at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States
Identifying Food Insecurity in Africa Using Remote Sensing Datasets (136695)
Gregory J Husak1, Dr. Frank Davenport IV, PhD2, Shraddhanand Shukla3, Amy McNally4 and William Turner1, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Air Quality Impact from Biomass Burning in Northern Sub-Saharan Africa (NSSA). (181926)
Richard Damoah, Morgan State University, Physics, Baltimore, MD, United States, Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Luke Ellison, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Mapping Water Level Dynamics over Central Congo River Using PALSAR Images, Envisat Altimetry, and Landsat NDVI Data (154074)
Donghwan Kim, National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, Houston, TX, United States, Hyongki Lee, University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, Hahn Chul Jung, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States; Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, United States, Alain Laraque, GET Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, UMR CNRS/IRD/UPS, UMR 5563 du CNRS, UR 234 de l’IRD, OMP, Toulouse, France, Raphael Muamba Tshimanga, University of Kinshasa, Congo Basin Water Resources Research Center (CRREBaC) & Dept. Natural Resources Management, Kinshasa, Congo and Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States
Vegetation-rainfall feedbacks across the Sahel: a combined observational and modeling study (160221)
Yan Yu1, Michael Notaro2, Fuyao Wang2, Jiafu Mao3, Xiaoying Shi4 and Yaxing Wei5, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research, Madison, WI, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Comparative Assessment of a New Hydrological Modelling Approach for Prediction of Runoff in Gauged and Ungauged Basins, and Climate Change Impacts Assessment: A Case Study from Benin. (162790)
Charlene Olayemi Ursula GABA, West Africa Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adaptation Land Use, Abomey-Calavi, Benin, Eric Alamou, Laboratory of Applied Hydrology, Faculty of Science and Techniques, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin, Abel Afouda, West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL); Graduate Research Program of, Cotonou, Benin and Bernd Diekkrüger, University of Bonn, Geography, Bonn, Germany
Biomass burning and its relationship with water cycle dynamics of the Chari-Logone catchment of Lake Chad Basin (163901)
Forrest Weston Black1, Jejung Lee2, Luke Ellison3, Manika Gupta4, John D Bolten3, Charles K Gatebe5 and Charles M Ichoku4, (1)Univ Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States, (2)University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Modulation of the ENSO Teleconnection to the Sahel (166131)
Catherine Pomposi, University of California, Santa Barbara , Department of Geography , Santa Barbara , CA , United States, Alessandra Giannini, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Yochanan Kushnir, Columbia Univ, Palisades, NY, United States
Impacts of climate change on rainfall, seasonal flooding, and evapotranspiration in the Okavango Delta, Botswana (167642)
Dr. Bronwen L Konecky1,2, David Noone2, Edwin Mosimanyana3 and Mangaliso Gondwe3, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Okavango Research Institute- University of Botswana, Maun, Botswana
Spatial Relationships between Biomass Burning and Land Use / Land Cover Dynamics in Northern Sub-Saharan Africa (168431)
Luke Ellison, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States; Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States and Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Sahelian Annual Vegetation since 1960: Growth and Phenology from a Modeling Approach (172461)
Caroline Pierre1, Manuela Grippa2, Eric Mougin3, Françoise Guichard4 and Laurent Kergoat3, (1)LISA Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, Créteil Cedex, France, (2)CNRS, GET, Toulouse, France, (3)GET Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (4)CNRS, UMR 3589 CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, Toulouse, France
Barriers to Uptake of Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices at the Farm Level: A Case Study of Dano and Ouahigouya Farmers, Burkina Faso (175251)
Yameogo Bindayaoba Thomas, West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted land use (WASCAL), Economics of climate change, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Water Storage Changes using Floodplain Bathymetry from InSAR and satellite altimetry in the Congo River Basin (180270)
Ting Yuan, UCLA Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Hyongki Lee, University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, Hahn Chul Jung, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, United States and Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States
Predicting the Effects of Man-Made Fishing Canals on Floodplain Inundation – A Modelling Study (182740)
Apoorva R Shastry1, Michael T Durand1, Jeffrey C Neal2, Alfonso Fernandez3, Ian Hamilton4, Saidou Kari5, Sarah Laborde6, Bryan G Mark7, Mouhaman Arabi8, Mark Moritz6 and Sui Chian Phang4, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (3)Universidad de Concepción, Geography, Concepción, Chile, (4)Ohio State University, Evolution Ecology and Organismal Biology, Columbus, OH, United States, (5)Center for Support to Research and Pastoralism, Maroua, Cameroon, (6)Ohio State University, Anthropology, Columbus, OH, United States, (7)School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, (8)The University of Maroua, Maroua, Cameroon
Development of Multivariate Regression Model for the Hydrologic System of Chari-Logone Catchment of the Lake Chad Basin. (183215)
KIM-Ndor Djimadoumngar1, Jejung Lee2, Mohammed D Bila3, Daira Djoret3 and Charles M Ichoku4, (1)University of Missouri Kansas City, Geosciences, Kansas City, MO, United States, (2)University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, United States, (3)Lake Chad Basin Commission, N'Djamena, Chad, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Potential Water Availability Index (PWAI): A New Water Vulnerability Index for Africa Based on GRACE Data (187946)
Emad Hasan1, Aondover Tarhule2, Yang Hong3 and Berrien Moore III3, (1)SUNY at Binghamton, HyDROS (University of Oklahoma), Binghamton, United States, (2)SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
Impact of Climate Change on Food Security in Kenya (189057)
Janet Jerotich Yator, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Linking land use changes to surface water quality variability in Lake Victoria: some insights from remote sensing (192804)
Ashutosh S Limaye1, Robinson M Mugo2, James Wanjohi Nyaga3, Hussein Farah3, Anastasia Mumbi Wahome2 and Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson4, (1)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya, (3)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (4)McGill University, Natural Resource Sciences, Montreal, Canada

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