Session 4D |
| | Africa Weather and Climate |
| | Chair: Morris A. Bender, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ
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| 3:30 PM | 4D.1 | Easterly wave diagnostics  
Gareth J. Berry, SUNY, Albany, NY; and C. Thorncroft and T. Hewson |
| 3:45 PM | 4D.2 | The role of Kelvin wave activity on convection and rainfall over tropical Africa
Ademe Mekonnen, SUNY, Albany, NY |
| 4:00 PM | 4D.3 | Subseasonal rainfall variability in the tropical eastern Atlantic-West African region
Guojun Gu, NASA/GSFC and Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Adler |
| 4:15 PM | 4D.4 | African aerosol and precipitation in the Atlantic ITCZ
Xiaoyu Liu, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and C. Zhang |
| 4:30 PM | 4D.5 | Recent rainfall trends across tropical West Africa: Observations and potential causes
Michael Christoph, Univ. of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; and A. H. Fink |
| 4:45 PM | 4D.6 | Robust response of Sahel precipitation to late 20th century forcings: natural or anthropogenic?
Michela Biasutti, LDEO, Palisades, NY; and A. Giannini |
| 5:00 PM | 4D.7 | Tropical climate variations and their impacts on circulation and precipitation in the Northwest Indian Ocean - Northeast Africa - Southwest Asia region
Damon C. Vorhees, NPS, Monterey, CA; and T. Murphree and K. D. Pfeiffer |
| 5:15 PM | 4D.8 | Diagnosis of African Easterly Wave Structure and Development using Quasi-Geostrophic Potential Vorticity
Daniel R. Chavas, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Morgan |