Workshop: Climate Variability over Africa
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Alexandria, 16 May 2005—The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is hosting the workshop entitled, Climate Variability over Africa, 15-26 May 2005, organized by the Department of Astronomy and Meteorology at the Faculty of Science, Cairo University, in cooperation with the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Italy.
The workshop involves the review of recent progress in understanding climate variability and trends (of both natural and anthropogenic origin) over Africa. The first week will be devoted to a general presentation of the main regional processes influencing the climate of the African continent, and to the modeling issues associated with the representation of such processes in regional climate models. In the second week, focus will be on global processes of relevance for the African continent with special attention to climate variability on inter-annual and inter-decadal time-scales and ocean-atmosphere interactions.
The workshop will also include tutorial lectures and laboratory sessions on the use of a Regional Climate Model (RegCM3) and a global atmospheric circulation model (SPEEDY), in addition to different aspects of active research, such as surface fluxes and convection processes.