GC43F:
Climate Variability and the African Environment, Water Resources, and Food Security II
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Session ID#: 15687
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: Robinson M Mugo, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya and Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison: Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Wassila Mamadu Thiaw, NOAA College Park, College Park, United States
Mike Hobbins1, Shraddhanand Shukla2, Amy McNally3, Daniel McEvoy4, Justin L Huntington5, Gregory J Husak6, Chris C Funk7, Gabriel B Senay8, James P Verdin9, Timen Jansma10 and Candida Dewes1, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Desert Research Institute, Reno, United States, (5)Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, United States, (6)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (7)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (8)USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Fort Collins, United States, (9)University of Maryland, Boulder, United States, (10)University of Groningen, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Groningen, Netherlands
Chris C Funk1,2, James P Verdin3, Gideon Galu4, Denis Macharia5, Shraddhanand Shukla2, Laura Harrison6, Amy McNally7, Christa D Peters-Lidard7, Franklin R Robertson8, Jason B Roberts8, Diego H Pedreros9, Gregory J Husak10, Pete Peterson11, Seth Peterson2, Greg Ederer10 and Martin Francis Landsfeld11, (1)UC Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Santa Barbara, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, United States, (3)University of Maryland, Boulder, United States, (4)FEWS NET, Nairobi, Kenya, (5)Regional Center for Mapping Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya, (6)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (9)USGS Michigan Water Science Center, Lansing, MI, United States, (10)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (11)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Shufen Pan1, Jia Yang1, Jingting Zhang1, Rongting Xu1, Shree R.S. Dangal1, Bowen Zhang1 and Hanqin Tian2, (1)Auburn University, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research and School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States, (2)Auburn University, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, Auburn, AL, United States
Cathy Liousse1, Peter Knippertz2, Cyrille Flamant3, Jacques Adon1, Aristide Akpo4, Isabella Annesi-Maesano3, Eric Assamoi5, Armelle Baeza6, Bahino Julien5, M Bedou5, Barbara J. Brooks7, Christine Chiu8, Christelle Chiron1, Hugh Coe9, S Danuor10, Julien Djossou4, Mathew J Evans11, Benjamin Fayomi12, Andreas Heinrich Fink13, Corinne Galy-Lacaux14, Eric Gardrat1, O Jegede15, Norbert Kalthoff16, M Kedote12, Seekou Keita5, Kouadio Kouame17, Abdourahamane Konare5, jean Francois Leon1, Celine H Mari18, Fabienne Lohou19, Laurent Roblou20, Hans Schlager21, Alfons Schwarzenboeck22, Evelyne Toure N'Datchoh5,18 and Yoboue Veronique5, (1)University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (2)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, (3)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (4)Université Abomey-Calavi, Laboratoire de Physique du Rayonnement, Cotonou, Benin, (5)Universite Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Laboratoire de Physique de l'Atmosphere, Abidjan, Côte D'ivoire, (6)Université Paris Diderot, RMCX, Paris, France, (7)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (8)University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom, (9)University of Manchester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Manchester, United Kingdom, (10)Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, (11)University of York, Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, York, United Kingdom, (12)Université Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin, (13)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany, (14)University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Toulouse, France, (15)Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria, (16)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-TRO), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany, (17)Institut Pasteur Cote d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte D'ivoire, (18)Laboratoire d'Aérologie - Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, Toulouse, France, (19)Laboratoire d'aérologie, CNRS UMR 5560, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénée, Université de Toulouse III, Toulouse, France, (20)CNRS, Toulouse, France, (21)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (22)Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Jens Redemann, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States, Robert Wood, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States, Paquita Zuidema, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, United States, Jim M Haywood, Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, Stuart Piketh, North-West University, Unit for Environmental Science and Management, Potchefstroom, South Africa, Paola Formenti, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), CNRS, Créteil, France and Steven Abel, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom
