88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Session 1B: African Climate: I. Past and Future

Monday, 21 January 2008: 9:00 AM-10:15 AM
217-218 (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Chair:  Kerry H. Cook, The University of Texas at Austin
Papers:
  9:00 AM
Holocene hydrological changes in North Africa (Invited)
Françoise Gasse Sr., CNRS-France, Aix-en-Provence, France

  9:30 AM
  9:45 AM
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
Forcing of Sahel rainfall change and variability in the CMIP models
Michela Biasutti, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~biasutti/Sahel_JC2008.pdf