West Africa is known to be particularly vulnerable to climate change due to high climate
variability, high reliance on rain-fed agriculture, and limited economic and institutional …

The West African Sahel is well known for the severe droughts that ravaged the region in the
1970s and 1980s. Meteorological research on the region has flourished during the last …

The arrival of the summer monsoon over West Africa has been documented by using daily
gridded rainfall data and NCEP–NCAR reanalyses during the period 1968–90, and OLR …

The Saharan Aerosol Long-Range Transport and Aerosol–Cloud-Interaction Experiment:
Overview and Selected Highlights in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society …

Automatic tracking of vorticity centers in European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
Forecasts analyses has been used to develop a 20-yr climatology of African easterly wave …

The Present and Future of the West African Monsoon: A Process-Oriented Assessment of
CMIP5 Simulations along the AMMA Transect in: Journal of Climate Volume 26 Issue 17 (2013) …

This article presents an overview of the land ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone) over
West Africa, based on analysis of NCAR–NCEP Reanalysis data. The picture that emerges …

Abstract The West African heat low (WAHL), a region of high surface temperatures and low
surface pressures, is a key element of the West African monsoon system. In this study, we …

The Seasonal Evolution of the Atmospheric Circulation over West Africa and Equatorial Africa
in: Journal of Climate Volume 16 Issue 7 (2003) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

Three-Dimensional Structure and Dynamics of African Easterly Waves. Part I: Observations in:
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 63 Issue 9 (2006) Jump to Content Jump to Main …