88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Session 5A: African Climate: V. Eastern and Southern Africa

Tuesday, 22 January 2008: 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
215-216 (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Chair:  Chidong Zhang, University of Miami/RSMAS
Papers:
  8:45 AM
The role of upper tropospheric easterly waves on the synoptic time scale convection over East Africa
Ademe Mekonnen, North Carolina A & T State University, New York, NC; and C. D. Thorncroft

  9:00 AM
Monsoon breaks over northern Africa: Role of cold air surges
Edward K. Vizy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and K. H. Cook

  9:15 AM
Why did the southern Africa teleconnection “hang up” during the 1997-98 El Niño?
Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY; and S. J. Mason

  9:30 AM
A regional climate modeling study of climate change over the Greater Horn of Africa
Jared Bowden, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and F. H. M. Semazzi