African Collaborators Continue Data Analyses from Niamey
Research by Professor Ben Mohamed and his colleagues at the University of Niamey has focused on analyzing the unique set of high-temporal resolution rawinsonde measurements—four soundings per day for an entire year—from the AMF deployment. Along with Dr. Slingo, who focused on thermodynamic and radiation measurements, they presented their initial findings at the Second AMMA International Conference in Karslrhue, Germany, and the Eighteenth ARM Science Team Meeting in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2008. With Dr. Pete Lamb, SGP Site Scientist, they presented their latest research results at the Third AMMA International Conference in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa, in July, which drew 400 participants—180 from Africa.
Because of the importance placed on this research for Niger and the rest of the Soudano-Sahel zone in West Africa, the agreement with the SGP site scientist team will enable the following intensive collaboration activities to occur:
- A three-month assignment by SGP Site Scientist Postdoctoral Appointee, Dr. Zewdu Tessema Segele, to the University of Niamey with Dr. Mohamed and his colleagues.
- Identification of Hama Hamidou, a promising researcher from the University of Niamey, for a six-month assignment at the University of Oklahoma’s Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies to coordinate and complete the collaboration begun with Dr. Segele while at the University of Niamey.