Poster Session 1 |
| | African Climate Poster Session |
| | Chair: Kerry H. Cook, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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| | P1.1 | Four-dimensional climate data sets of the AMMA special observing period-3 
Leonard Druyan, NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and M. Fulakeza, P. Lonergan, and E. Noble |
| | P1.2 | Climatology and interannual variability of South African synoptic scale storms
Timothy Eichler, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Mo; and W. Higgins |
| | P1.3 | The impact of dynamic vegetation on dust and Sahel precipitation
Andrea M. Sealy, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Mahowald |
| | P1.4 | East African temperature variations and their possible causes
J. R. Christy, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL; and W. B. Norris and R. T. McNider |
| | P1.5 | A reexamination of the statistical relationships between West African precipitation anomalies and Atlantic hurricane activity
Jon M. Schrage, Creighton Univ., Omaha, NE; and A. H. Fink |
| | P1.6 | Genesis of African Easterly Waves
Chris D. Thorncroft, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and N. M. J. Hall and G. N. Kiladis |
| | P1.7 | Subseasonal prediction of cumulative precipitation over the Sahel with the NCEP Climate Forecasting System
Augustin Vintzileos, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, VA; and W. M. Thiaw |
| | P1.8 | Convectively coupled Kelvin waves over tropical Africa during the boreal summer: Structure and variability
Ademe Mekonnen, SUNY, Albany, NY; and C. D. Thorncroft and G. N. Kiladis |
| | P1.9 | Index insurance for drought in the Millennium Villages Project
M. Neil Ward, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY; and E. M. Holthaus and A. Siebert |
| | P1.10 | Annual cycle of the Saharan heat low and its role in the coupled West African monsoon system
Thi Thuy Hanh Nguyen, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY; and C. D. Thorncroft, C. Zhang, and P. Peyrille |
| | P1.11 | Statistical characterization of the dry spell risk during the west African monsoon from meteorological station data
Asher Siebert, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY; and N. Ward, O. Ndiaye, and P. Kangah |
| | P1.12 | Impacts of dust on West African climate during 2005 and 2006
Moctar Camara, Howard University, Washington, DC; and G. Jenkins and A. Konare |
| | P1.13 | A climatology of African warm-season rainfall episodes based on a combined IR/MW precipitation estimate approach
Samantha Melani, LaMMA -Institute of Biometeorology (IBIMET-CNR), Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy; and A. Antonini, V. Levizzani, R. Ginnetti, M. Pasqui, A. Ortolani, A. G. Laing, and R. E. Carbone |
| | P1.14 | A Synoptic and Structural Analysis of the 11 September 2006 West African Squall Line
Jonathan Smith, Howard University, Washington, DC; and M. Delonge, S. Chan, A. Diop, B. Koltz, D. Grant, S. Diatta, S. Salak, and T. Fall |
| | P1.15 | Possible Interactions between a West African Squall Line Event and the SAL
Aaron Pratt, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and T. L. Battle, D. Robertson, and B. Dickey |
| | P1.16 | Interactions of the West African Monsoon circulation and the Tropical Atlantic SSTs in a coupled regional climate model
Samson M. Hagos, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; and K. H. Cook |
| | P1.17 | The effect of dust optical properties on surface radiative energy budget and atmospheric thermodynamics during Pirata/Aerose-III
Adrian Flores, NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph, N. R. Nalli, and V. Morris |
| | P1.18 | Wavelet-Based Monthly-to-Seasonal Rainfall Predictions for Ethiopia
Zewdu Segele, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. J. Lamb and L. M. Leslie |