Session 12 |
| | Regional Issues: Africa |
| 1:30 PM | | Plenary Talk
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| 2:00 PM | 12.2 | Transition from the Southern to the Northern Hemisphere
Raphael E. Okoola, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya |
| 2:15 PM | 12.3 | Climate and atmospheric circulation changes in Southern Africa during the last 100 years 
Joachim Rathmann, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany; and J. Jacobeit |
| 2:30 PM | 12.4 | Inter-hemispheric comparison of the dynamics of rain-producing systems in tropical Africa: A study of climate change within the Kalahari and Sahelian transects
J. A. Adedoyin, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana |
| 2:45 PM | 12.5 | The relationship between southern Africa Rainfall and ENSO events
Washington Zhakata, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 12.6 | The role of Indian and Pacific Ocean SSTs in African rainfall variability
Richard Washington, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxon, United Kingdom; and A. Preston and M. C. Todd |
| 3:45 PM | 12.7 | Climatic variability in central Africa and its link to sea-surface temperatures and the El Nino/La Nina
Natasa Balas, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and S. Nicholson |
| 4:00 PM | 12.8 | Intermodel evaluation of GCM boundary conditions for nested RCM downscaling
Bruce Hewitson, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa; and C. Jack and R. Crane |
| 4:15 PM | 12.9 | Model Output Statistics Applied to Multi-Model Ensemble Forecasts for Southern Africa
Willem A. Landman, South African Weather Service, Pretoria, South Africa; and L. Goddard |
| 4:30 PM | 12.10 | Seasonal forecasting for southern Africa using HadAM3
Mark Tadross, CSAG, Cape Town, South Africa; and D. Jagadheesha and B. C. Hewitson |
| 4:45 PM | 12.11 | A 15 year regional model integration for Southern Africa
Chris Jack, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa |
| 5:00 PM | 12.12 | The role of Indian Ocean SST on East African Short Rains
Charles C. Mutai, Meteorological Department of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya |