HR: 1340h
AN: U33A-0801    [Abstracts]
TI: The UCAR Africa Initiative: Enabling African Solutions to African Needs
AU: * Pandya, R
EM: pandya@ucar.edu
AF: UCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Bruintjes, R
EM: roelof@ucar.edu
AF: UCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Foote, B
EM: foote@ucar.edu
AF: UCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Heck, S
EM: sheck@ucar.edu
AF: UCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Hermann, S
EM: stefanie@ucar.edu
AF: UCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Hoswell, L
EM: liz@ucar.edu
AF: Direction Nationale de la Meteorologie, Republique du Mali, Route de l'aeroport de Bamako-Senou, Bamako, BP237, Mali
AU: Konate, M
EM: ma_konate@yahoo.com
AF: Direction Nationale de la Meteorologie, Republique du Mali, Route de l'aeroport de Bamako-Senou, Bamako, BP237, Mali
AU: Kucera, P
EM: pkucera@ucar.edu
AF: UCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Laing, A
EM: laing@ucar.edu
AF: UCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Lamptey, B
EM: lamptey@ucar.edu
AF: UCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Moncrieff, M
EM: moncrief@ucar.edu
AF: UCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Ramamurthy, M
EM: mohan@ucar.edu
AF: UCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Roberts, R
EM: rroberts@ucar.edu
AF: UCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Spangler, T
EM: tspang@ucar.edu
AF: UCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Traoré, A
EM: daliltraore@yahoo.fr
AF: Programme SAAGA, 01 BP 6299, Ougadougou, 01, Burkina Faso
AU: Yoksas, T
EM: yoksas@ucar.edu
AF: UCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Warner, T
EM: warner@ucar.edu
AF: UCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AB: The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Africa Initiative (AI) is a coordinated effort aimed at building sustainable partnerships between UCAR and African institutions in order to pursue research and applications for the benefit of the African people. The initiative is based on four fundamental operating principles, concisely summarized by the overall philosophy of enabling African solutions to African needs. The four principles are: • Collaborate with African institutions
• Focus on institutional capacity building and research support
• Explore science research themes critical to Africa and important for the world
• Leverage the research infrastructure in UCAR to add value These principles are realized in a set of pilot activities, chosen for their high probability of short-term results and ability to set the stage for longer-term collaboration. The three pilot activities are listed below. 1. A modest radar network and data-distribution system in Mali and Burkina Faso, including a data-sharing MOU between the Mail and Burkina Faso Weather Services. 2. A partnership among UCAR, the Ghana Meteorological Agency, and the Ghana university community to develop an operational Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model for West Africa. The output is used by researchers and operational forecasters in Africa. Model output is also part of a demonstration project that aims to allow humanitarian agencies to share geo-referenced information in Africa via a web portal. 3. A workshop in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from April 2-6, 2007, with the theme Improving Lives by Understanding Weather. The workshop, co-organized with Programme SAAGA and the Commité Permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte Contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS), included over 80 participants from 18 countries, and produced a set of recommendations for continued collaboration. Our presentation will provide an update of these pilot activities and point to future directions. Recognizing that there are already a number of universities and government agencies leading efforts to contribute to atmospheric- science capacity building in Africa, we want to begin a discussion regarding how UCAR projects can align with such pre-existing efforts.
UR: http://www.africa.ucar.edu
DE: 3329 Mesoscale meteorology
DE: 3333 Model calibration (1846)
DE: 3360 Remote sensing
DE: 3364 Synoptic-scale meteorology
DE: 3374 Tropical meteorology
SC: Union [U]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting