UCAR Quarterly: Spring 2007

• Henson- The African Link: UCAR builds its connection to the continent

UCAR BOT Meeting: 15 May 2007

• Pandya- Diversity Update (pdf)

UCAR UMC Meeting: 10 May 2007

• Pandya- Summary of the 2007 Sahel Conference (pdf)

Presentations to Jim Simon: 9 March 2007

• Anthes- An Introduction to AAAS-UCAR-NCAR Africa Initiative (pdf)
• COMET & the Africa Initiative (pdf)
• Lamptey & Warner- Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Modeling in Africa: the Ghana example (pdf)
• Laing & Moncrieff- Weather Research in Africa: Science for Society (pdf)
• Upgrading Infrastructure and Radars and stream data through UNIDATA back to NCAR (pdf)

UCAR BOT Meeting: 21 February 2007

• Pandya- An Integrated Approach to Excellence: An overview for UCAR BOT (pdf)

AAAS Committee on Public Understanding of Science and Technology, San Francisco: 16 February 2007

• Pandya- An Overview of AAAS-UCAR Africa Initiative (pdf)

THORPEX African Planning Meeting, Burkina Faso: 10-12 February 2007
Two UCAR representatives traveled to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso to explore opportunities for partnerships and to provide an update on the AAAS/UCAR Africa Initiative to THORPEX.

• Lamptey- WRF Ghana (pdf)
• Pandya- An Overview of AAAS/UCAR Africa Initiative (pdf)

UMC Meeting: 19 December 2006

• Semazzi- Applications Focused Research on the African Weather & Climate Systems (ppt)
• Pandya- Africa Initiative Update (ppt)
• Warner- Western Africa NWP: The model and initial results (ppt)

Planning Meeting: 9 November 2006
A subset of those involved in the Africa Initiative met to prepare a proposal for the UCAR President's Council. The proposal outlined a set of pilot activities to launch the Africa Initiative, and was presented to the President's Council on 17 November. Reaction was favorable, and the President's Council offered $200K toward the pilot activities.

• Agenda (pdf)
• Meeting Minutes (pdf)
• Proposal (pdf) (ppt)

WMO THORPEX Meeting: 25 October 2006

• Meeting Minutes (pdf)
• Boger- GLOBE in Africa (ppt)
• Bruintjes- (ppt)
• Laing-Moncrieff- Patterns of convection in Africa: Implications for prediction of precipitation (ppt)
• Lamptey- Capacity Building in Africa (ppt)
• Pandya- (ppt)
• Ramamurthy- UNIDATA (ppt)
• Shapiro- (ppt)

Africa Initiative Updates

• Update: September 28, 2006 (pdf)
• Summary of progress to-date: September 6, 2006 (pdf)

Presentation to UCAR management
On July 20th, Participants presented an update and overview of the discussion to the managers of all UCAR/NCAR/UOP programs. Click here to download the ppt presentation.

Meeting II: 6 & 7 July 2006
Draft Meeting Minutes (word)

• Anthes- Malcom Visit Introduction (ppt)
• Laing- Patterns of Convection in Africa & Opportunities for Collaboration (ppt)
• Lamptey- Case Study: August 2005 Moving Precipitation System over West Africa (ppt)
• Boger- Globe in Africa (ppt)
• Moncrieff- Why the Africa Initiative Needs a Research Component... and a Suggested Framework (ppt)
• Bruintjes- Current Programs in Africa Update, Scientific Challenge: Aerosol-Cloud Interactions: Implications for Precipitation and Weather Modification (ppt)
• Ramamurthy- International Scientific Partnerships through Real Time Data Sharing (Unidata) (ppt)
• Shapiro- Towards an Early Warning System for Mitigating Vulnerability to High Impact Weather, climate, air quality and associated health hazards in Africa (ppt)
• Mahowald- North African Dust (ppt)
• Johnson- Africa Initiative EO (ppt)
• Hibbard- START projects in Africa (ppt)
• Weingroff- African Satellite Meteorology Education & Training (ASMET) (ppt)

• Thorncroft- AMMA introduction (ppt) - presentation not given-
  
• Proposal to Upgrade Infrastructure & Radars and Stream Data through Unidata back to NCAR Bruintjes, et al. (ppt)
• Demo Project for West Africa Moncrieff, et al. (pdf)

Meeting I: 9 May 2006
Click here to download a PDF copy of the Meeting Minutes from UCAR's initial discussion regarding the Africa Initiative.