Session 2B |
| | African Climate: II. African Easterly Waves and Dust |
| | Chair: William K. M. Lau, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| 10:45 AM | 2B.1 | North African dust production: past, present and future (Invited) 
Richard Washington, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom |
| 11:00 AM | 2B.2 | Dust interaction with african climate (Invited)
Natalie Mahowald, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and M. Yoshioka and A. M. Sealy |
| 11:15 AM | 2B.3 | On the generation mechanisms of African easterly waves (Invited)
Jen-Shan Hsieh, Department of Oceanography, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX; and K. H. Cook |
| 11:30 AM | 2B.4 | Radar Observations of African Easterly Wave Convection During NAMMA
Robert Cifelli, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and T. Lang, S. A. Rutledge, B. Smull, and P. A. Kucera |