88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Session 2B: African Climate: II. African Easterly Waves and Dust

Monday, 21 January 2008: 10:45 AM-11:45 AM
217-218 (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Chair:  William K. M. Lau, NASA/GSFC
Papers:
  10:45 AM
North African dust production: past, present and future (Invited)
Richard Washington, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  11:00 AM
Dust interaction with african climate (Invited)
Natalie Mahowald, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and M. Yoshioka and A. M. Sealy

  11:15 AM
On the generation mechanisms of African easterly waves (Invited)
Jen-Shan Hsieh, Department of Oceanography, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX; and K. H. Cook

  11:30 AM
Radar Observations of African Easterly Wave Convection During NAMMA
Robert Cifelli, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and T. Lang, S. A. Rutledge, B. Smull, and P. A. Kucera