Benjamin Lamptey

	Benjamin Lamptey

Benjamin Lamptey (RAL), has been working with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, Community Land Model (CLM) as well as using different data sets (Satellite, Gauge, Global Position System, Radar) for various analyses. The geographical area of interest is West Africa.

Ben's ongoing research includes optimizing the WRF model for Weather Prediction over West Africa by doing case studies, modifying and running the WRF model for climate simulations and running the CLM over West Africa. Ben is also working with a team in RAL to setup the WRF model for real time weather prediction initially over West Africa .

Ben is involved in

•  The African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) Project

•  The AAS-UCAR African Initiative

•  A modeling project between RAL and a private company. The project is on weather and climate applications to water resource management, agriculture, health, and energy. This project has operations, research and applications components to it.

Publication

Lamptey, B. L., 2006: Comparison of gridded multi-satellite rainfall estimates with gridded gauge rainfall over West Africa. Submitted.

Non-Research Activity

Contributes to the World Meteorological Organization -THORPEX African Science Plan.

Presentation

Lamptey, B. L., E. J. Barron, D. Pollard, 2005: Impacts of agriculture and urbanization on the climate of the Northeastern United States . Glob. Planet. Change, 49, 203-221 Presented at the Third ICTP Workshop on the "Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models", May 29 - June 9, 2006 , at Miramare, Trieste - Italy.

Funding Sources

These research and activities are supported by the National Science Foundation through various programs at NCAR (i.e. ASP, RAL, TIIMES).