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 common explanation for the progression of the rainy season over Africa is the seasonal
excursion of the ITCZ. The ITCZ paradigm stems from a time when tropical rainfall was …

Seasonality of African Precipitation from 1996 to 2009 in: Journal of Climate Volume 25
Issue 12 (2012) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo …

The “Year” of Tropical Convection (May 2008–April 2010): Climate Variability and Weather
Highlights in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 93 Issue 8 (2012) …

We use 2005–2009 satellite observations of formaldehyde (HCHO) columns from the OMI
instrument to infer biogenic isoprene emissions at monthly 1× 1° resolution over the African …

Regional climate model (RCM) is a valuable scientific tool to address the mechanisms of
regional atmospheric systems such as the West African monsoon (WAM). This study aims to …

Tropical intraseasonal variability (TISV) of the atmosphere describes the coherent variability
in basic state variables, including pressure, wind, temperature, and humidity, as well as in …

A suite of 40 day UK Met Office Unified Model simulations over West Africa during summer
2006 are analyzed to investigate the causes of biases in the position of the rainbelt and to …

The formation of the Atlantic cold tongue (ACT) is the dominant seasonal sea surface
temperature signal in the eastern equatorial Atlantic (EEA). A comprehensive analysis of …

The Gourma site in Mali is one of the three instrumented meso-scale sites deployed in West-
Africa as part of the African Monsoon Multi-disciplinary Analysis (AMMA) project. Located …