Session 9A African Climate Variations and Change—Part I

Wednesday, 10 January 2018: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
616 AB (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)
Host: 31st Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs:
Sharon E. Nicholson, Florida State Univ., EOAS, Tallahassee, FL and Andreas H. Fink, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe

Papers:
8:30 AM
9A.1
Inter-Annual Variability and Large-Scale Controls of African Easterly Wave Activity
James O. H. Russell, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and A. R. Aiyyer
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
9A.2
The Interaction Between Cloud Regimes and Easterly Wave Activity over Africa: Convective Transitions and Mechanism
Ademe Mekonnen, North Carolina A&T State Univ., Greensboro, NC; and W. B. Rossow
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
9A.3
The Midday Atmospheric Controls on Mesoscale Convective System Intensity in Two Convection-Permitting Regional Atmosphere Models
Rory Gordon John Fitzpatrick, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and K. H. Cook, D. J. Parker, C. M. Taylor, and E. K. Vizy
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
9A.4
WRF-Simulated Winter Season Sahelian Dust Variabilty (1959–2014)
Gregory S. Jenkins, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and M. Gueye
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
9A.5
Sensitivity of Sahelian Precipitation to North African Dust Aerosol under ENSO Variability: Dynamics, Variability and Feedbacks in NASA Models and Observations
Asha Jordan, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and B. F. Zaitchik, A. Gnanadesikan, D. Kim, M. Chin, and H. S. Badr
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
9A.6
Impact of Remote Anthropogenic Aerosols on East African Rainfall
Claire Scannell, UKMO, Exeter, UK; and B. B. B. Booth
Recorded Presentation

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