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Southern Africa Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling

Southern Africa Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling. University of Cape Town South Africa 22 January - 2 February 2001. Southern Africa Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling. Organizers: Bruce Hewitson (Univ. Cape Town) Akin Adedoyin (Univ. Botswana) Filippo Giorgi (ICTP)

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Southern Africa Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling

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  1. Southern Africa Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling University of Cape Town South Africa 22 January - 2 February 2001

  2. Southern Africa Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling Organizers: • Bruce Hewitson (Univ. Cape Town) • Akin Adedoyin (Univ. Botswana) • Filippo Giorgi (ICTP) • Bill Gutowski (IITAP, Iowa State Univ.)

  3. Southern Africa Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling • 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)

  4. Southern Africa Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling

  5. Southern Africa Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling • 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)

  6. Southern Africa Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling • 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

  7. Southern Africa Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling • 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

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