GC44A:
Climate Variability and the African Environment, Water Resources, and Food Security III

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Session ID#: 15692

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:  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
OSPA Liaison:  Robinson M Mugo, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya
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:

River Discharge across Africa under Present-day and Mid-Holocene Conditions (176085)
Charles Williams, University of Reading, NCAS Climate, Department of Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom, Joy Sargita Singarayer, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Emily Black, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Simon J Dadson, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom and Sallie L Burrough, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
Documenting a decline in boreal spring rainfall over the Congo Basin and eastern Africa (135926)
Sharon E Nicholson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Hydroclimatic Change in the Congo River Basin: Past, Present and Future169 (157717)
Noel R Aloysius, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
Forecasting and Communicating Water-Related Disasters in Africa (151867)
Yang Hong1, Race A Clark2, Daniel Mandl3, Jonathan J Gourley4, Zac Flamig1, Ke Zhang1, Denis Macharia5, Stuart Walden Frye3, Patrice G Cappelaere6 and Matthew Handy3, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)NOAA/NSSL, Norman, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)National Severe Storms Lab, Oklahoma City, United States, (5)Regional Center for Mapping Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya, (6)ASRC Federal Technical Services, Ellicott City, MD, United States
Integrated Water, Energy, and Environmental Planning in the Rufiji River and Lake Rukwa Basins, Tanzania: “We Must Become the Change We Want to See”—Mahatma Ghandi. (192465)
Aris P. Georgakakos, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Georgia Water Resources Institute, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, United States
Evaluating the performance of real-time streamflow forecasting using multi-satellite precipitation products in the Upper Zambezi, Africa (189609)
Juan B Valdes, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Eleonora M. Demaria, Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, United States, Sungwook Wi, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, Aleix Serrat-Capdevila, The World Bank, Water Global Practice, Washington D.C., United States, Rodrigo Valdés-Pineda, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and Matej Durcik, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Land cover mapping for development planning in Eastern and Southern Africa (188896)
Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson1, Phoebe Oduor2, Jaffer Ababu Wakhayanga3, John Kiema3, Hussein Farah3, Robinson M Mugo2, Anastasia Mumbi Wahome2, Ashutosh S Limaye4 and Daniel Irwin4, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, 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)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Vegetation Outlook for the Greater Horn of Africa (VegOut-GHA): An Experimental Model (121985)
Tsegaye Tadesse, National Drought Mitigation Center, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, United States, Getachew Berhan Demisse, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Yared A Bayissa, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, Brian Wardlow, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, United States and Won-Ho Nam, Hankyong National University, School of Social Safety and Systems Engineering, Anseong, South Korea

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