Africa Initiative

Dave Burridge Visit

Africa Initiative

Photos from Mel Shapiro

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

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

COSMIC

Partners

UCARAfrican University and Researchers

New Met Tools and Data

Applications Research

African Stakeholders (Not Meteorologists)

Pan-Africa Organization

Observational Capacityand Data Sharing

African Models

Societal Benefit

Training, Infrastructure, Collaboration

Applications-Focused Research and Capacity Building