Abstract: Enhanced surface and upper-air observations from the field campaign of the Integrated Approach to the Efficient Management of Scarce Water Resources in West Africa (IMPETUS) project are used to partition rainfall amounts ...

Abstract: Using ECMWF's second-generation reanalysis, ERA-40, the large-scale mean state and synoptic-scale features associated with African easterly wave disturbances (AEWs) are examined over West Africa and the adjacent eastern ...