Advancing Air Quality and Carbon Science in Africa: Agenda

Day 1: Wednesday 10 March 2021.

1. Monitoring Air pollution from local to continental scale

• Fields campaigns and international project
• Existing monitoring network
• Satellite remote sensing of African air quality

8:00 am: Everette Joseph, Introduction from the NCAR Director

8:10-8:25 Invited Talk.

Presenter: Jonathan Hickman (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA)

Title: Biomass burning declines lead to large net reductions in NO2 concentrations over north equatorial Africa in spite of growing fossil fuel emissions

8:25-8:35:

Presenter: Maite Bauwens (Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Belgium) Title: Satellite measurements over Africa: the view from TROPOMI

8:35-8:45:

Presenter: Deo Okure (AirQo, Uganda)

Title: Using Low-cost innovations to fill the data gaps in sub-Saharan Africa: the AirQo experience

8:45-8:55:

Presenter: Cathy Liousse (Laboratoire d'Aérologie, France)

Title: Historical review of studies on air quality and carbon science in West Africa

8:55-9:05:

Presenter: Kathryn McKain (NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory and CIRES/University of Colorado, USA)

Title: A New In-situ Aircraft Measurement Program for CO2, CH4, and CO in Uganda

9:05-9:15:

Presenter: Solomon Bililign (North Carolina A&T State University, USA) Title: Plans for Air quality Pilot Study in African Megacities

9:15-9:25:

Presenter: Zablon W. Shilenje (Kenya Meteorological Service, Kenya) Title: Selected air quality measurements in Kenya

9:30-10:10 Panel Discussion with the presenters: Diagnosing atmospheric composition in Africa (Chair: G. Brasseur, Rapporteur: Helen Worden)

Day 2: Thursday 11 March 2021

2. The emergent role of urbanization in African Air Quality

• Anthropogenic, biomass burning and biogenic emissions
• Application of Air Quality models and Health Impact assessment

8:00-8:15 Invited Talk.

Presenter: Avelino F. Arellano (University of Arizona, USA)

Title: On the Emergence of a Rise in Anthropogenic Combustion in Sub-Saharan Africa

8:15-8:25:

Presenter: Rebecca Garland (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa) Title: Characterizing urban air pollution in South Africa

8:25-8:35:

Presenter: Eloise Marais (University College London, United Kingdom)

Title: The burgeoning charcoal industry in Africa and its influence on air quality and health

8:35-8:45:

Presenter: Beata Opacka (Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Belgium)

Title: Two-decadal (2001-2019) biogenic flux estimates over Africa based on MEGAN and satellite land cover data

8:45-8:55:

Presenter: Daniel Westervelt (Columbia University, USA)

Title: Air quality in Africa research at Columbia University: case studies from Kinshasa, Accra, and Nairobi

8:55-9:05:

Presenter: Mogesh Naidoo (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa) Title: Estimation of emissions from selected sectors in South Africa for air quality modelling

9:05-9:15:

Presenter: Sekou Keita (Université Péléforo-Gbon-Coulibaly, Ivory Coast) Title: African Anthropogenic Emissions Inventories

9:15-9:55 Panel Discussion with the presenters: Advancing knowledge on emissions and air quality in Africa (chair: A. Arellano, Rapporteur: Cathy Liousse)

Day 3: Friday 12 March 2021.

3. Assessment of present and future air quality in Africa

• The important role of meteorology
• Integrative assessment and modelling infrastructure

8:00-8:15 Invited Talk.

Presenter: Peter Knippertz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Title: The potential of increasing man-made air pollution to reduce rainfall over southern West Africa.

8:15-8:25:

Presenter: Osinachi F. Ajoku (NCAR Advanced Study Program, USA)

Title: Impacts of biomass burning produced aerosols on the stratocumulus to cumulus transition in the equatorial Atlantic.

8:25-8:35:

Presenter: Rajesh Kumar (NCAR Research Applications Laboratory, USA)

Title: First assessment of the WRF-Chem air quality simulations for Africa and insights into carbon monoxide distribution and source attribution.

8:35-8:45:

Presenter: Guy Brasseur (Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Germany) Title: The MAP-AQ IGAC project.

8:45-8:55:

Presenter: Michael Giordano (Afriqair, Rwanda)

Title: AfriqAir's Role in Air Quality Infrastructure and Capacity Building in Africa - Current and Future Projects.

8:55-9:05:

Presenter: Peter Adams (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Title: Using Reduced-Complexity Air Quality Models as a Decision-Support Tool in Developing Countries.

9:05-9:15:

Presenter: Francis Pope (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) Title: A Systems Approach to Air Pollution (ASAP) East Africa

9:15-9:45 Panel Discussion with the presenters: Designing the next generation of air quality models. (chair: F. Lacey, Rapporteur: B. Gaubert)