| | 5D.3 | The interannual variability of pre-storm environments of intense convective systems in West Africa: Application to future climate scenarios Karen I. Mohr, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. D. Nicholls |
| 8:30 AM | 5D.4 | Regional analysis of West African monsoonal convective systems
Recorded presentation Nick Guy, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and S. A. Rutledge and B. Dolan |
| 8:45 AM | 5D.3a | The Role of Guinea Highlands Convection on Tropical Cyclogenesis
Recorded presentation Michael J. Ventrice, SUNY, Albany, NY |
| 9:00 AM | 5D.5 | Role of cross-equatorial SST gradients and orography in African easterly wave genesis Sara C. Vieira, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster |
| 9:15 AM | 5D.6 | Easterly wave structural evolution over West Africa and the East Atlantic
Recorded presentation Matthew A. Janiga, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY |
| 9:30 AM | 5D.7 | Controls on the interannual variability of rainfall over western equatorial Africa
Recorded presentation Amin K. Dezfuli, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL |