U.S.-Kenya Cooperative Research: An Atlas Of Recent AfricanClimate (1979-1990) (Science in Developing Countries)

这个美国-肯尼亚合作研究项目涉及佛罗里达州立大学和内罗毕大学，涉及气候学和数值天气预报的一般领域。项目资金将使共同研究者T.N.克里希纳穆提博士（佛罗里达州立大学）和L.J.奥加洛（内罗毕大学）能够到佛罗里达州立大学进行为期四个月的实地考察和旅行，以编制涵盖1979-1990年期间的《近代非洲气候地图集》。这项工作将扩大和更新最近由联合气候规划署出版的地图集，该地图集涵盖了1980-1984年五年期间非洲大陆的气候。每144个月的数据将处理以下变量：对流层风、温度、湿度、位势高度、海平面压力、海面温度、植被指数、降雨分布和向外长波辐射场。地图集将包括关于数据质量、数据验证、数据分析的章节，以及关于解释月平均场、异常以及季节内和年际变化的详细章节。一旦完成，这些数据集将全部储存在软盘和磁带上，供内罗毕大学的年轻科学家使用。这个气候模拟项目实现了推进科学知识的计划目标，使美国和肯尼亚的专家能够结合他们的专业知识和汇集研究资源，以提高预测严重干旱和监测气候变化的能力。

Technical Narrative This U.S.-Kenyan collaborative research project involving Florida State University and University of Nairobi, is in the general area of climatology and numerical weather prediction. Project funding will enable travel and a four-month site visit at Florida State for the co-investigators, Dr. T.N. Krishnamurti (Forida State) and L.J. Ogallo (University of Nairobi), to prepare an Atlas of Recent African Climate, covering the period 1979-1990. This effort will expand and update an Atlas recently published by the co-PIs that covered the climate of the continent over the five-year period 1980-1984. The data for each of the 144 months for the following variables will be processed: tropospheric winds, temperature, humidity, geopotential heights, sea level pressure, sea surface temperature, vegetation index, rainfall distribution and the field of the outgoing longwave radiation. The Atlas will include sections on data quality, data validation, data analysis and detailed sections on the interpretation of the monthly mean fields, anomalies and intra-seasonal and inter- annual variability. Once completed, the data sets will all reside on diskettes and tapes and will become available to young scientists at the University of Nairobi. This project in climate modeling fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling experts in the United States and Kenya to combine their expertise and pool research resources to improve the ability to predict severe droughts and to monitor climate change.