CAREER: Characterizing the Uncertainty in Projections of Climate Change in the Semi-Arid Tropics Based on the Moist Static Energy Framework

SPONSOR:

National Science Foundation (NSF)

FUNDED AMOUNT:

$743,639

RESEARCH TEAM:

Megan Sheremata, Evelyn Roman-Lazen, Jah-Vin Vaughan, Pradipta Parhi, Catherine Pomposi

EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS:

Emerging Leaders in Technology and Engineering; Frederick Douglass Academy, NYC Department of Education

WEBSITE:

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0955372&HistoricalAwards=false

PUBLICATIONS:

Giannini, A., S. Salack, T. Lodoun, A. Ali, A. T. Gaye and O. Ndiaye, 2013. A unifying view of climate change in the Sahel linking intra-seasonal, interannual and longer time scales. Environmental Research Letters, 8, 024010, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024010;

Xie, S.-P., C. Deser, G. A. Vecchi, M. Collins, T. L. Delworth, A. Hall, E. Hawkins, N. C. Johnson, C. Cassou, A. Giannini and M. Watanabe, 2015. Towards predictive understanding of regional climate change. Nature Climate Change, 5, 921-930, doi:10.1038/nclimate2689

Parhi, P., A. Giannini, P. Gentine and U. Lall, 2016. Resolving contrasting regional rainfall responses to ENSO over tropical Africa. J. Climate, 29, 1461-1476, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/ JCLI-D-15-0071.1

Pomposi, C., A. Giannini, Y. Kushnir and D. E. Lee, 2016. Understanding Pacific Ocean influence on inter- annual precipitation variability in the Sahel. Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 9234-9242, doi:10.1002/2016GL069980

Giannini, A. and A. Kaplan, 2019. The role of aerosols and greenhouse gases in Sahel drought and recovery. Climatic Change, 152, 449-466, doi: 10.1007/s10584-018-2341-9

KEYWORDS

ocean and climate physics climate justice climate precipitation uncertainty moist static energy prediction divergent model behavior

THEMES

Modeling and Adapting to Future Climate