The Ewiem Nimdie Summer School Series in Ghana: Capacity Building in Meteorological Education and Research—Lessons Learned and Future Prospects

Nimdie summer school is a biennial or triennial event that to date has been hosted in Ghana and focuses on the atmospheric sciences; "Ewiem Nimdie" means "atmospheric science" in the local Ashanti language.The first school was conducted in the summer of 2008, hosted by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) located in Kumasi, with the second school taking place at the same institution two years later, in July 2010.The schools were designed to help launch the undergraduate meteorology program of KNUST and benefited from the significant increase in research activity regarding West African weather and climate that has arisen from the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) program.Both schools lasted two weeks and included a broad program of lectures, hands-on classes in regional forecasting and climate applications modeling, and a variety of field measurement activities with associated student projects that were presented at the culmination of each school.From its inception, the summer school program was designed around the concept of integrating undergraduate and new Ph.D. students from all over the globe with research interests in African meteorology and climate.Figure 1 documents the country of study/origin of the students who participated in each school.The attendance of African students from across the continent was funded under the budget of each school, with about half originatingThe ewiem Nimdie Summer School SerieS

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