GC33B:
Climate Variability and the African Environment, Water Resources, and Food Security II Posters
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Session ID#: 25398
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: Tsegaye Tadesse, National Drought Mitigation Center, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, United States, Amin K Dezfuli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Robinson M Mugo, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya
Chairs: Amin K Dezfuli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Robinson M Mugo, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya
OSPA Liaison: Tsegaye Tadesse, National Drought Mitigation Center, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Laura Harrison1, S Lucille Lucille Blakeley2, Mike Hobbins3, Candida Dewes3, Chris C Funk4, Shraddhanand Shukla5 and Gregory J Husak6, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey EROS Center / FEWS NET, Sioux Falls, United States, (5)UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (6)USGS, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Emily E Riddle1, Thomas M Hopson2, Prof. Mekonnen K Gebremichael, PhD3, Jennifer Boehnert4, Daniel Broman5, Kevin Michael Sampson6, Dorita Rostkier-Edelstein7, Dan C Collins8, Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep9, Eileen Burke9 and Kathia Havens9, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (3)University of California, Los Angeles, United States, (4)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (5)Bureau of Reclamation Denver, Water Resources Planning and Operations Support Group, Denver, CO, United States, (6)Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc., Boulder, United States, (7)Israel Institute for Biological Research, Department of Environmental Physics, Environmental Sciences Division, Ness Ziona, Israel, (8)Climate Prediction Center College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (9)World Bank, Washington, DC, United States
Robert V Rohli1, Sara Ates1, Victor H Rivera-Monroy2, Michael J Polito3, Stephen R Midway1, Arthur Gold4, Edward Castañeda-Moya5, Emi Uchida6, Makoto Suwa7 and Mwita M Mangora8, (1)Louisiana State University, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (3)Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (4)University of Rhode Island, Natural Resources Science, Kingston, RI, United States, (5)Florida International University, Southeast Environmental Research Center, Miami, United States, (6)University of Rhode Island, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Kingston, RI, United States, (7)World Meteorological Organizat, Bethesda, MD, United States, (8)University of Dar es Salaam, Institute of Marine Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Yuri Kim, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, Anne M. Trainor, The Nature Conservancy, Africa Program, Cincinnati, OH, United States and Tracy J. Baker, The Nature Conservancy, Africa Program, Highland, NY, United States
Catherine Pomposi, US Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States, Chris C Funk, U.S. Geological Survey EROS Center / FEWS NET, Sioux Falls, United States, Shraddhanand Shukla, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Tamuka Magadzire, FEWS NET, Gaborone, Botswana
Shufen Pan1, Jingting Zhang1, Jia Yang2, Guangsheng Chen1, Rongting Xu1, Bowen Zhang1 and Yiping Lou3, (1)Auburn University, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research and School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States, (2)International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States, (3)Auburn University, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States
Megan Lickley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States and Susan Solomon, MIT/EAPS, Cambridge, United States
