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| Hilton Washington D.C./Silver Spring | ||
| 4-5 May 2006 | ||
| Click on the presentation author for the slide show. | ||
| Thursday, 4 May 2006 | ||
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| 08:30 | Introduction to AMMA International Research and Field Programme and rationale for the workshop | Chris Thorncroft |
| 09:10 | I. Water Cycle (Chair: Paul Houser) | |
| Introduction to key issues and International WG2 (30) | Jean-Luc Redelsperger/Amadou Gaye | |
| Radars and lightning observations in Africa (30) | Earle Williams and Manos Anagnostou | |
| The global water cycle and Sahel droughts (20) | Aiguo Dai | |
| 10:30 | Coffee | |
| 10:50 | I. Water Cycle (continued) | |
| Column dataset analyses from observations and models (20) | Brian Mapes | |
| Downscaling of seasonal precipitation and climate variability (20) | Sylwia Trzaska | |
| Scenario modeling of drought conditions and the effect on surface runoff in Wankama watershed in Niger (20) | Baxter Vieux | |
| Discussion | ||
| 12:10 | Lunch | |
| 01:40 | II. Radiation-aerosol issues (Chair Pete Lamb) | |
| The ARM mobile facility and related science issues (20) | Mark Miller | |
| Aerosol-water cycle interaction; a new challenge for monsoon system research (30) | Bill Lau | |
| Radiative heating rate profiles in the tropics (30) | Sally McFarlane | |
| AMF In-situ aerosol from Niger: Preliminary data from the first three months (30) | Anne Jefferson | |
| CLASIC and COPS: Land-Surface Field Experiments in 2007 | Mark Miller | |
| Observations of from a major dust outbreak in West Africa (15) | Gary Robinson | |
| 04:00 | Coffee | |
| 04:20 | III. AMMA-downstream (Chair Greg Jenkins) | |
| Overview of science issues and NASA-AMMA (20) | Greg Jenkins | |
| Tropical cyclogenesis and the role of the SAL (20) | Jason Dunion | |
| The application of ship-based radar datasets to AMMA objectives (20) | Zuidema (pdf) | |
| NASA modeling project (20) | Bill Lapenta | |
| 07:15 | IV. Climate Variability and Change (Chairs: Alesandra Giannini/Bob Molinari) | |
| A global climate system perspective on African climate variability and change (20) | Alesandra Giannini | |
| Sahel forcing of multidecadal variability of vertical shear and tropical cyclones in the Atlantic (20) | Anantha Aiyyer | |
| West African Monsoon Modeling Evaluation project (20) | Yongkang Xue and Bill Lau | |
| Long-term observations to study the WAM and climate with emphasis on ocean-atmosphere interactions (20) | Bob Molinari | |
| Discussion | ||
| Friday, 5 May 2006 | ||
| 08:30 | V. Land surface feedbacks (Chair Eric Wood) | |
| Introduction to international WG3 (20) | Jan Polcher (pdf) | |
| Observational and diagnostic studies for AMMA (30) | Alan Betts (pdf) | |
| LDAS systems for AMMA (20) | Aaron Boone and Christa Peters-Lidard | |
| Regional and global teleconnections generated by land-cover change in African tropical regions (20) | Roni Avissar | |
| Soil moisture feedbacks on rainfall generation in the AMMA region (20) | Randy Koster | |
| West African Monsoons: Regional feedbacks and Local Impacts (30) | Fatih Eltahir | |
| 10:50 | Role of NCEP in AMMA (20) | Jim Laver |
| 11:10 | Breakout Groups | |
| The following two presentations were made during the water cycle breakout | ||
| AMMA-Africa in WG2: Water Cycle | Amadou Gaye | |
| Representing convective organization in prediction models by a hybrid strategy | Mitch Moncrieff | |
| 02:00 | Data Policy | Jan Polcher |
| Data and datacenters | Steve Williams | |
| 02:30 | Conclusion of breakout groups and recommendations | |
| 02:30 | I. Water Cycle | Paul Houser |
| 02:50 | II. Radiation/aerosol issues | Mark Miller/Pete Lamb |
| 03:10 | III. Land surface atmosphere feedbacks | Eric Wood |
| 03:30 | IV. AMMA downstream | Greg Jenkins |
| 03:50 | V. Climate variability and change | Alesandra Giannini/Bob Molinari |
| 04:10 | GEWEX presentation | Rick Lawford |
| 04:30 | Inputs from US funding managers | |
| Final Comments | Chris Thorncroft | |