Ewiem Nimdie Summer School Ghana, July 2008
Lectures
Doug Parker . . . . . . . Tropical and boundary layer dynamics
Michael Douglas . . . . Pilot soundings and mesoscale climatology
Adrian Tompkins. . . . Convection and NWP methods
Peter Lamb. . . . . . . . . Rainfall variability, regional climate change
Matt Hobby . . . . . . . . Data analysis techniques
Jean Philippe Lafore. Convection and forecasting during AMMA
Andreas Fink. . . . . . . West African weather systems
Jerome Omotosho. . . West African forecasting methods
Ben Lampty. . . . . . . . Numerical weather prediction
Angela Jackson. . . . . Air quality over West Africa
Andy Morse . . . . . . . . Microclimate and health
Sammy Tay . . . . . . . . Climate impacts on health
David Grimes. . . . . . . ???
Pilot balloon soundings
Observations
Forecasting
Student interests 1Andreas Hansler . . . . Impact of land use on regional climate modelling over
Southern Africa
Augustine Arthur . . . Integrating optically remote sensed data into air quality models
Cecile Kocha. . . . . . . . Convection and visibility forecasting – evaluating AROME over West Africa
David Adukpo. .. . . . . Effects of air pollution on crop yield
Emmanual Ndetto . . Modelling the impact of climate change on convective storms (coming to Reading in October for the MSc)
Ivy Frenger. . . . . . . . Impact of land surface changes over West Africa
Joelle Bechara . . . . . Characterising the chemical reactivity of air masses in the tropical troposphere
Luis Garcia-Carreras Impact of land surface on convective initiation and the diurnal cycle of the West African monsoon
Student interests 2Raymund Mugandani Land atmospheric chemistry
Nana Browne. . . . . . . . Using multi model ensembles for seasonal forecasting
Pius Madu . . . . . . . . . Forecasting MSC storm tracks
Remi Meynadier. . . . . Atmospheric water cycle in the West African monsoon
Romain Roehrig . . . . Intraseasonal variability over West Africa
Stephanie Leroux. . . African Easterly Waves
Salami Tairu . . . . . . . Teleconnections of West African weather systems
Samo Ditta . . . . . . . . Statistics of vertical profiles of space based rain estimates using TRMM
Simone Kotthaus Surface flux measurements over West Africa
Vincent Ajayi . . . . . . . Radiative forcing from Saharan dust
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