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University of Cape TownSouth Africa

22 January - 2 February 2001

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Organizers:

Bruce Hewitson (Univ. Cape Town)

Akin Adedoyin (Univ. Botswana)

Filippo Giorgi (ICTP)

Bill Gutowski (IITAP, Iowa State Univ.)

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Additional contributors:

Chris Jack (Univ. Cape Town)

Warren Tennant (SAWB)

Willem Landeman (IRI)

Hannes Rautenbach (Univ. Pretoria)

Chris Reason (Univ. Cape Town)

Ruwani Walawege (Univ. Cape Town)

Chris Lennard (Univ. Cape Town)

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Abdoulaye Sarr Senegal Laboratory of Physics of theAtmosphere

Albert Owino Kenya Kenya Met Dept

Charles Mutai Kenya Kenya Met Dept

Ernest Afiesimama Nigeria University of Lagos

Franklin Opijah Kenya University of Nairobi

Joseph Intsiful Ghana University of Ghana

Kgakgamatso Mphale Botswana University of Botswana

Leonard Unganai Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Met Department

Leon Razafindrakoto Madagascar Meteo and Hydo Office ResearchService

Mohammed El-Doma Sudan University Khartoum

Patrick Bembe Tanzania Tanzania Met Agency

Paul Woafo Cameroon University of Yaounde

Raphael Mukaro Zimbabwe Bindura University

Richard Anyah Kenya University of Nairobi

Samuel Raboqha Lesotho Lesotho Met Services

Suman Jain Zambia University of Zambia

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Sponsors: The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training (START)

International Institute for Theoretical and Applied Physics (IITAP)

Endorsement:

South African Society for Atmospheric Sciences (SASAS)

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GOALS - during workshop:• understand the general motivation and structure of a regional climate model • learn general features of African climate

– emphasis: issues approachable with RCMs

• learn to initialize, run, archive and analyze an MM5 regional climate simulation

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GOALS - during workshop:• understand the general motivation and structure of a regional climate model • learn general features of African climate

– emphasis: issues approachable with RCMs

• learn to initialize, run, archive and analyze an MM5 regional climate simulation

GOALS - post-workshop:

• continue developing regional climate modeling capacity

• contribute to ensemble simulation exercise

• contribute to simulation analyses

Day Morning Afternoon

MondayJan. 22

ObservedClimate

UNIXIntroduction

TuesdayJan. 23

Visualization ClimateTheory - 1

WednesdayJan. 24

ClimateTheory - 2

MM5:Overview

ThursdayJan. 25

MM5:TERRAIN

MM5:REGRID

FridayJan. 26

MM5:INTERP

MM5:Simulation

Day Morning Afternoon

MondayJan. 29

MM5:Visualization

MM5:Visualization

TuesdayJan. 30

ModelingIssues - 1

GuestLectures

WednesdayJan. 31

ModelingIssues - 2

WebResources

ThursdayFeb. 1

MM5: DataManagement

MM5: ClimateSimulation

FridayFeb. 2

Post-Workshop

ClosingDetails

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