Session 1B |
| | African Climate: I. Past and Future |
| | Chair: Kerry H. Cook, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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| 9:00 AM | 1B.1 | Holocene hydrological changes in North Africa (Invited) 
Françoise Gasse Sr., CNRS-France, Aix-en-Provence, France |
| 9:30 AM | 1B.2 | Regional projections of future changes in climate in tropical Africa under greenhouse gas forcing and land cover changes
Heiko Paeth, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; and M. Christoph and A. H. Fink |
| 9:45 AM | 1B.3 | The relationship between temperature and precipitation in the Sahel as a diagnostic of land-atmosphere feedbacks of relevance to climate change
Alessandra Giannini, International Research Institute for Climate and Society/Columbia University, Palisades, NY |
| 10:00 AM | 1B.4 | Forcing of Sahel rainfall change and variability in the CMIP models
Michela Biasutti, LDEO, Palisades, NY |