The UCAR Africa Initiative: Recent insights, challenges, and opportunities to foster collaborative research for environmental sustainability

Wenfu Tang; Rajesh Kumar; Anna Del Moral Méndez; Felicity Ahafianyo; Akintomide A. Akinsanola; Agbeli Ameko; Marleen Dekker; Rong Fu; Benjamin Gaubert; Samson Hagos; Cenlin He; Forrest Lacey; Kelly M. Núñez Ocasio; Isla R. Simpson; Kassahun Ture; Christopher D. Wirz; Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig; Emmanuel O. Audu; Shima Bahramvash-Shams; Solomon Bililign; Roelof Bruintjes; Cyndi Castro; Belay Demoz; Ismaila Diallo; Ross D. Dixon; Jimy Dudhia; Abdulamid A. Fakoya; Rebecca M. Garland; Cindy Halley Gotway; Yaoxian Huang; Ata Hussain; Dorcas Idowu; Yan Jiang; Agnieszka H. Kazimierczuk; Peter Lawrence; Danny M. Leung; Samar Minallah; Naoki Mizukami; Israel R. Orimoloye; Paul A. Kucera; Kwesi A. Quagraine; Addisu Semie; Simone Tilmes; Daniel M. Westervelt; Daile Zhang; Zhe Zhang; Helen Worden; Pieternel F. Levelt

doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0118.1

The UCAR Africa Initiative: Recent insights, challenges, and opportunities to foster collaborative research for environmental sustainability

Wenfu Tang, Rajesh Kumar, Anna Del Moral Méndez, Felicity Ahafianyo, Akintomide A. Akinsanola, Agbeli Ameko, Marleen Dekker, Rong Fu, Benjamin Gaubert, Samson Hagos, Cenlin He, Forrest Lacey, Kelly M. Núñez Ocasio, Isla R. Simpson, Kassahun Ture, Christopher D. Wirz, Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig, Emmanuel O. Audu, Shima Bahramvash-Shams, Solomon BililignRoelof Bruintjes, Cyndi Castro, Belay Demoz, Ismaila Diallo, Ross D. Dixon, Jimy Dudhia, Abdulamid A. Fakoya, Rebecca M. Garland, Cindy Halley Gotway, Yaoxian Huang, Ata Hussain, Dorcas Idowu, Yan Jiang, Agnieszka H. Kazimierczuk, Peter Lawrence, Danny M. Leung, Samar Minallah, Naoki Mizukami, Israel R. Orimoloye, Paul A. Kucera, Kwesi A. Quagraine, Addisu Semie, Simone Tilmes, Daniel M. Westervelt, Daile Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Helen Worden, Pieternel F. Levelt

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Tang, W., Kumar, R., Méndez, A. D. M., Ahafianyo, F., Akinsanola, A. A., Ameko, A., Dekker, M., Fu, R., Gaubert, B., Hagos, S., He, C., Lacey, F., Ocasio, K. M. N., Simpson, I. R., Ture, K., Wirz, C. D., Abolafia-Rosenzweig, R., Audu, E. O., Bahramvash-Shams, S., ... Levelt, P. F. (2025). The UCAR Africa Initiative: Recent insights, challenges, and opportunities to foster collaborative research for environmental sustainability. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, BAMS-D-24-0118.1. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0118.1

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