J9A African Climate Change and Variability

Wednesday, 15 January 2025: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
244 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Submitters:
Kerry H. Cook; Ademe Mekonnen and Edward K. Vizy
Cochairs:
Kerry H. Cook; Ademe Mekonnen and Edward K. Vizy

Climate change and variability has a major impact on the African continent, contributing to food insecurity, displacement of populations, and stress on water resources. In this session, we invite contributions on all aspects of African climate and weather, including work emphasizing physical processes and climate theory, observations of weather/climate, and numerical modeling studies of past, present, and future African climate/weather.

Papers:
8:30 AM
J9A.1
Evaluating the Variability of the West African Monsoon in Gridded Paleo Reconstructions
Michela Biasutti, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY; and E. R. Cook, B. Buckley, A. Giannini, and D. WANE

8:45 AM
J9A.2
The past 21,000 years of tropical African temperature change in GDGT lake sediment proxies and equilibrium and transient model simulations
Charlie Marshall, Rice University, Houston, TX; and S. G. Dee, C. Morrill, and J. Russell

9:00 AM
J9A.3
Influence of Madden Julian Oscillation on Precipitation Extremes and its State-of-Art Climate CMIP6 Historical Simulations over West Africa
Coumba NIANG, Michigan State University, Okemos

9:15 AM
J9A.4
Temperature Increases Threaten the Congo Basin Rainforest in the 21st Century More Than Precipitation Changes
Kerry H. Cook, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and E. K. Vizy, P. C. Andrews, and S. Zhao

9:30 AM
J9A.5
Characteristics of daily rainfall totals in tropical West Africa over the last 100 years
Andreas H. Fink, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany; and M. Maranan and A. Jong

9:45 AM
J9A.6
An energetics perspective on the twentieth-century Sahel drought and recovery
Rakshith Mallesh, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and J. Srinivasan and D. Niyogi

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