Climate Effects/Controls on Mesoscale Processes
NOAA/NWS/International Activities Office – Collaboration and Cooperation within the ACMAD Core Demonstration Project in Climate Prediction between ACMAD and CIMMS
Lamb (primary – CIMMS at OU), LeLe, Segele, Mbainayel
Funding Type: CIMMS Task III (Program Manager – Rob Masters)
Objectives
Continued research collaboration and cooperation between the African
Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) and CIMMS.
Accomplishments
Research collaboration and cooperation between the African Centre of
Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) and CIMMS continued
strongly in the past year. CIMMS continued to fund and/or supervise
three graduate students and one Post-Doctoral scientist from Africa
whose research focuses on key weather- and climate-related problems
of their countries. Those students come from Ethiopia (Segele, Ph.D.
in Meteorology, completed), Niger (Lele, M.S. in Meteorology, completed;
Ph.D. in meteorology, started), and Chad (Mbainayel, M.S. in Meteorology,
recently commenced). A large paper derived from the Ethiopian student’s
Ph.D. Dissertation was submitted to the International Journal of Climatology
in 2007. In addition, CIMMS played a major role in the deployment the
ARM Program’s (U.S. Department of Energy) Mobile Facility in
Niamey (near ACMAD) for all of 2006, and in securing and facilitating
funding for University of Niamey scientists to analyze ARM data collected
in Niamey. The leader of the University of Niamey team (Professor Abdelkrim
Ben Mohamed) also serves as Chair of the ACMAD Scientific Advisory
Council. In support of the ARM Mobile Facility deployment in Niamey,
CIMMS issued monthly and seasonal reports on the progress and quality
of the West African monsoon at Niamey for 2005 and 2006. This work
now is being incorporated into an overview paper on the Niamey deployment
that soon will be submitted to the Journal of Geophysical Research.
A key figure is shown below.
This project is ongoing.
Annual cycle of Niamey climate for 2005-2006.