Session 4D Africa Weather and Climate

Monday, 24 April 2006: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Regency Grand BR 4-6 (Hyatt Regency Monterey)
Host: 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology
Chair:
Morris A. Bender, NOAA/GFDL, Gfdl, Princeton, NJ

Papers:
3:30 PM
4D.1
Easterly wave diagnostics
Gareth J. Berry, SUNY, Albany, NY; and C. Thorncroft and T. Hewson
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (1.1 MB)

3:45 PM
4D.2
The role of Kelvin wave activity on convection and rainfall over tropical Africa
Ademe Mekonnen, North Carolina A & T State University, New York, NC
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (246.9 kB)

4:00 PM
4D.3
Subseasonal rainfall variability in the tropical eastern Atlantic-West African region
Guojun Gu, NASA/GSFC and ESSIC, Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Adler
Recorded presentation

4:15 PM
4D.4
African aerosol and precipitation in the Atlantic ITCZ
Xiaoyu Liu, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and C. Zhang
Recorded presentation

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
Recorded presentation

4:45 PM
4D.6
Robust response of Sahel precipitation to late 20th century forcings: natural or anthropogenic?
Michela Biasutti, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY; and A. Giannini
Recorded presentation

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
Recorded presentation

5:15 PM
4D.8
Diagnosis of African Easterly Wave Structure and Development using Quasi-Geostrophic Potential Vorticity
Daniel R. Chavas, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and M. C. Morgan
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (446.2 kB)

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