Session 15B African Climate Change and Variability II

Thursday, 1 February 2024: 1:45 PM-3:00 PM
350 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs:
Ross D. Dixon; Aissatou Faye Jr.; Akintomide Akinsanola, University of Illinois Chicago, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chicago, IL; Kerry H. Cook and Edward K. Vizy

Papers:
1:45 PM
15B.1
The Misrepresentation of Southern African Easterly Jet in Models and Its Implication for Aerosol, Clouds, and Precipitation Distributions
Adeyemi A. Adebiyi, University of California Merced, Merced, CA; and A. Akinsanola and O. Ajoku

2:00 PM
15B.2
2:15 PM
15B.3
Examining Future African NH Summer Dust Concentrations and Westward Transport using WRF for Present Day, Mid and Late 21st Century with MPI boundary conditions
Gregory S. Jenkins, The Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA; and D. Colón-Burgos, J. Z. Tindan, and S. Gebremariam

2:30 PM
15B.4
WRF-CHEM Simulations of Saharan Dust for the Periods of 1981–2010, 2041–2060, 2081–2100 Using NCEP, ECMWF Reanalyses, and the CMIP5/CMIP6 GCMS
Jacob Z. Tindan, The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. Gebremariam, G. S. Jenkins, and M. Rather

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