Abstract: The Saharan heat low (SHL) is thought to be a key feature of the West African monsoon, and its variations during the summer season have not yet been systematically assessed. To characterize the intraseasonal variations of ...

Abstract: est African monsoon intraseasonal variability has important implications for food security and drought early warnings. In the present study, intraseasonal variability over the Sahel is assessed from the perspective of ...

Abstract: he present assessment of the West African monsoon in the models of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) phase 5 (CMIP5) indicates little evolution since the third phase of CMIP (CMIP3) in terms of both biases ...

Abstract: The ENSO metrics package is a community-developed tool to evaluate climate models and promote scientific understanding among model development teams and model output users.The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the ...