Curriculum Vitae

 1-Personal Data

 Last Name: El Afandi              First Name: Gamal Salah Abbas

 Date and place of Birth: 22 November 1967 El Menoufia, Egypt

 Nationality: Egyptian. State: married

 Residence: Egypt                             E-Mail: salah@ucar.edu, gamalafandy@yahoo.com

 2-Scientific Degrees

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 3-Employment Summary:

 

 

 4-Workshops and Conferences

 

 1-Symposium on Sciences and Engineering Education in The 21^st Century. 9-12 April 1995, The American Univ. in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.

 2. First National Conference in Physical & Mathematical Sciences & Applications Phyma-1.  27 - 30 November 1995, Egyptian Syndicate of Scientific Professions, Cairo, Egypt.

 3. Meteorology and Integrated Development Conference at Cairo. 24-25 Mar. 1996, Organized by the Egyptian Meteorological Authority. Cairo, Egypt.

 4. Meteorology and Sustainable Development Conference at Cairo. 15-17 Feb. 1998, Organized by the Egyptian Meteorological Authority. Cairo, Egypt.

5. The Fourth Conference, Meteorology & Sustainable Development to 21^st Century. 7-9 March 1999, Organized by the Egyptian Meteorological Authority. Cairo, Egypt.

6. Third International Scientific Conference (Science & Development and Environment).  22 - 25 Mar. 1999, Organized by the Faculty of Science, AL-Azhar Univ., Cairo Egypt.

7. First Training Seminar on Agrometeorology Cairo. 17-20 May 1999, Organized by the Central Lab. For Agricultural Climate, Cairo, Egypt.

8-     The fifth Conference, Meteorology & Sustainable Development, 22-24 Feb. 2000 organized by the Egyptian Meteorological Authority. Cairo, Egypt.

9- Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture, 13-16 March 2000 Cairo University, Egypt.

10- The 25^th International Conference for Statistics, Computer Science and Population, 6-11 May 2000, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Cairo, Egypt.

11- Fourth International Scientific Conference (Science & Development and Environment). 27-29 Mar. 2001, Organized by the Faculty of Science, AL-Azhar Univ., and Cairo Egypt.

12- First International Workshop on Climate Variability over Africa 15-26 May 2005. Organized by Cairo   University and ICTP, Italy. Alexandria, Egypt.

13- 41^st Workshop of the U.S.-Egypt by National Program for Science and Technology, 13-15 Mar. 2006 Marriot Cairo Egypt.

14- Speaker and Trainer in, A Training workshop about the climatic change over the Arab world (18^th – 19^th June 2006) in Abu Kir – Alexandria (The Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport).

15- Visitor Scientist at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder Colorado, USA from 22 July 2006 – 06 August 2006 also attended WRF (Weather Research Forecast)     Tutorial from 24-28 July 2006.

16-CANADA-EGYPT DAY ON EARTH OBSERVATION, 29 OCTOBER 2006. Organized by National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences. Canadian Space Agency- Canadian Embassy in Egypt.

16- Workshop on Climate Change and Agriculture, 6 March 2007 Organized by the Central Lab. For Agricultural Climate, Cairo, Egypt.

17- Workshops entitled:

“Geo-information for Food Security”, and “Writing for Research Proposals & Publication”, from 26 March 5 April 2007.

These workshops have been organized in association with the Department of Geography, Environmental Management & Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg; the ITC, Enschede, Netherlands, with sponsorship from the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), and the Department of Science and Technology, South Africa. The activity forms part of the programme of UNEDRA, the African University Network for Disaster Risk Assessment.

 

5-Research Interests

 

I am broadly interested in climate and climate change. My research centers on trying to understand how features at the Earth's surface influence atmospheric properties and vise versa how the atmospheric influence the vegetation layer at the earth surface. I want to understand climate models, ranging from simple analytical models to General Circulation Models (GCMs), to explore these issues, with comparisons to observations an important element for validating processes identified as important in the models. Modeling is used to explore biophysical mechanisms, and not necessarily to generate the most realistic simulations possible, I prefer to combine theoretical and observational methods to advance our understanding of the weather phenomena and the growth of agricultural crops. Models are used to help understand the underlying physics behind a phenomenon rather than simulating specific observations. The use of a numerical model helps isolate biophysical processes occurring in nature and will narrow the gap between simple analytic models and more complicated observations.

I am also interested in the use of computers in atmospheric science. In particular how they can be utilized to visualize atmospheric structure and processes and to see their effects on the biological surface layer of the earth. I used the output of the atmospheric general circulation models to study the future conditions for climate change and its impacts on crop production by using Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT).

My work is, largely attached to data acquisition and data handling with climate models. Also I have computer skills dealing with windows and Linux such as FORTRAN LANGUAGE, GRADS and a lot of software that serve meteorology.

Now I am using Advanced Weather Research Forecast (WRF-ARW) model over North Africa to compare its output with reality.

I am a visitor Scientist in the visitor program of National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) at Boulder Colorado USA. I attended the last Tutorial workshop July 2006 for Weather Research Forecast (WRF) model. Now I am trying to use this model to forecast the important weather Phenomenon that affect environment also I began to use WRF model in Applications.

 

6-List of Publications

 

1-    F.M. El-Hussainy and G. S. Abbas 2001: Precipitable water estimations over Egypt Al–Azhar Bulletin of Science, Proceedings of the 4^th.Int. Sci. Conf. 27 – 29 March 2001, pp. 247 –266.

2-    F.M. El–Hussainy and G. S. Abbas 2001: water vapor transmittance for solar radiation over Egypt. Al–Azhar Bulletin of Science, Proceedings of the    4^th Int. Conf. 27 – 29 March, pp. 267-285.

3-    G. S. Abbas 2007: Comparison of the General Circulation Models (GCMs)   results with observed data (in press).

4-     G. S. Abbas 2007: Simulation of the impact of climate change on rice crop (in press).

5-    G. S. Abbas 2007: Simulation of the impact of climate change on wheat crop (in press).

 

7-Teaching Courses

1-Physical Meteorology

2- Principals of dynamic Meteorology

3- Radiation in the Atmosphere

4- Synoptic Meteorology

5- Computer applications in Meteorology

6- Dynamical Meteorology

7- Physical Climatology

8- Atmospheric thermodynamics

9- Statistical Meteorology

10- Natural Atmospheric Phenomena

11- Atmospheric Boundary Layer

12- Cloud physics

13- Numerical Weather Prediction

14- Weather analysis and forecasting

15- Climate models

16-Computer and Meteorological applications

17- Atmospheric General circulation

18- Climate change

19- Tropical Meteorology

20-Middle atmosphere

21-Agriculture Meteorology

22- Marine Meteorology

23- Supervised Research

 

M.Sc. ABSTRACT

Some intercomparisons of solar absorption by atmospheric water vapour

 

            Water vapour, due to its abundance in the atmosphere is considered one of the most important greenhouse gases.  The water vapour feedback, in which increased surface temperatures lead to increased water vapour concentration and hence amplify greenhouse trapping, is very important problem.  The uncertainty about size of the water vapour feedback is related not only in difficulties in determining changes in the quantity of atmospheric water vapour but also in the effect of water vapour in regime of absorption in different bands. So, the problem of role of water vapour in atmospheric attenuation seems to be very vital.

 

          In this study analyses were carried out to characterize absorption of short wave radiation by water vapour, also, changes in the vertical profile of layer water vapour contents were also investigated.  Different methods were used to estimate amount of atmospheric water vapour including surface variability support using surface observation.  Satellite estimates of total water vapour contents seem to provide some differences in comparison with surface observations.

 

The different functions of absorptance were examined and compared in the text, over different wavelengths and for individual atmospheric profiles.

  

Ph.D. Abstract

Simulation of the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Production

 

Changes in the atmospheric composition due to anthropogenic increase in green house gases etc., lead to changes in the radiative balance of the earth and consequent alterations in temperature, circulation pattern and weather patterns. The after effects of these changes are likely to manifest as major climate changes over the surface of the earth. Numerical models of the atmosphere have proved to be a very good tool in the assessment of the effect of increasing greenhouse gases on the earth’s climate.  These models predicted an increase in the earth’s surface temperature during this century because of accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The effect of build up of the of sulphate aerosols in the atmosphere and its ability to increase the albedo of the atmospheric system, thereby cooling the atmosphere, has been recognized recently by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Agricultural activities are very sensitive to climate conditions. Agricultural decision makers either are at the mercy of these natural factors or try to be benefit from them.

The following decisions should not be made without knowing elements of climate change. The current work try to investigate through global climate models the expected climate among variety of models.

In addition, comparison was made extensively to show the performance of these models.   On the second step, the models were employed for area (22.5^oN,0.25^oE) to (37.25^oN, 36.75^oE) to study climate features and deviations from baseline climatology.

Through the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT), study for two essential crops (rice and wheat) were carried out in order to define the impact of climate change on yield production in addition to flowering date, physiological maturity and biomass at harvest.

The current work contains detailed analysis and investigation of possible changes up to 2017 (Egyptian strategy planning year).   The results imply quiet remarkable changes in all agriculture parameters for this period and sensitivity to climate variations were fairly detected.