Abstract: Precipitation is a major socioeconomic factor in the Guineo-Soudanian zone of tropical West Africa with its distinct summer rainy season from May to October. Albeit rare, precipitation during the dry season can have ...

Abstract: Precipitation during the boreal winter dry season in tropical West Africa is rare but occasionally results in significant impacts on the local population. The dynamics and predictability of this phenomenon have been studied ...

Abstract: he southern parts of West Africa are frequently covered by an extensive deck of shallow, low (200?400 m AGL) stratus or stratocumulus clouds during the summer monsoon. These clouds usually form at night in association with ...

Abstract: This study uses a 1° ? 1° lat?long dataset, extracted from ECMWF reanalyses for the 15-yr period 1979?93 (ERA-15), to composite environmental characteristics and flow features in the vicinity of named tropical cyclones ...

Abstract: ome spatiotemporal characteristics and possible mechanisms controlling the onset of the widespread, low-level nocturnal stratiform clouds that formed during May?October 2006 over southern tropical West Africa are investigated ...

Abstract: Hydrostatic tendency equations of pressure and geopotential have been used in various forms since the beginning of the twentieth century. In contrast to classical mass flux divergence formulations, all forms that involve ...

Abstract: onvective cold pool events in (semi) arid areas have significant impacts on their environment. They reach horizontal extents of up to several hundred kilometers and the associated turbulence and shear can cause dust emissions ...

Abstract: The West African squall line is a key quasi-linear storm system that brings much of the precipitation observed in the data-poor Sudanian climate zone. Squall lines propagate at a wide range of speeds and headings, but the ...

Abstract: AbstractThis study presents the first systematic comparison of the dynamics and thermodynamics associated with all major tropical wave types causing rainfall modulation over northern tropical Africa: the Madden?Julian ...