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Africa Initiative
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Africa Initiative
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Africa Initiative Ideals
“African Solutions to African Problems”
– A priority on research applications with direct societal benefit
– Long-term capacity building, education and research in the atmospheric and related sciences
– Deep collaboration with African institutions
– Leverage existing networks and infrastructure
– Explore Earth science research themes that are critical to Africa and important for the world
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A PlanFocused on West Africa
• Enhanced Observational Capacity– Upgrade and network existing
radars – Unidata data distribution– COSMIC Soundings
• Enhanced Modeling Capacity– WRF-Africa– Operational regional forecast
• Educational Opportunities– COMET Operational Training – GLOBE Africa– Post-doctoral Positions
• Societal Benefit– Improved Wx forecasts– Capacity Building
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COSMIC
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Partners
UCARAfrican University and Researchers
New Met Tools and Data
Applications Research
African Stakeholders (Not Meteorologists)
Pan-Africa Organization
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Observational Capacityand Data Sharing
African Models
Societal Benefit
Training, Infrastructure, Collaboration
Applications-Focused Research and Capacity Building