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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