88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Session 3A: African Climate: III. Convection and Synoptic Systems

Monday, 21 January 2008: 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
215-216 (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Chair:  Edward K. Vizy, Cornell University
Papers:
  1:30 PM
Intraseasonal and interannual variability of the characteristics of West African convective systems (Invited)
Karen I. Mohr, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. D. Thorncroft, C. J. Alonge, and W. -. K. Tao

  1:45 PM
Cycles of deep convection over central and southern Africa
A. G. Laing, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. E. Carbone and V. Levizzani

  2:00 PM
A 3-4 day Convective Oscillation between East Africa and Equatorial Congo during Boreal Summer
Chris D. Thorncroft, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and A. Mekonnen

  2:15 PM
Convectively coupled Kelvin waves and convective systems over equatorial Africa
Thi Thuy Hanh Nguyen, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), Paris, France; and J. P. Duvel