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TI Large-scale overview of the summer monsoon over West Africa during the AMMA field experiment in 2006
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AF JANICOT, S.
   THORNCROFT, C. D.
   ALI, A.
   ASENCIO, N.
   BERRY, G.
   BOCK, O.
   BOURLES, B.
   CANIAUX, G.
   CHAUVIN, F.
   DEME, A.
   KERGOAT, L.
   LAFORE, J.-P.
   LAVAYSSE, C.
   LEBEL, T.
   MARTICORENA, B.
   MOUNIER, F.
   NEDELEC, P.
   REDELSPERGER, J.-L.
   RAVEGNANI, F.
   REEVES, C. E.
   ROCA, R.
   DE ROSNAY, P.
   SCHLAGER, H.
   SULTAN, B.
   TOMASINI, M.
   ULANOVSKY, A.
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C1 Inst Rech Dev, Lab Oceanog & Climat Experimentat & Anal Numer, Paris, France.
   SUNY Albany, Dept Earth & Atmospher Sci, Albany, NY 12222 USA.
   Inst Rech Dev, Lab Etud Transferts Hydrol & Environm, Grenoble, France.
   Ctr Natl Rech Meteorol, Toulouse, France.
   Univ Paris 06, Serv Aeron, Paris, France.
   Inst Rech Dev, Lab Etud Geophys & Oceanog Spatiale, Brest, France.
   CNRS, Meteorol Dynam Lab, Paris, France.
   CNRS, Ctr Etud Spatiale Biosphere, Toulouse, France.
   Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire Inter-universitaire des Syst`emes Atmosph´eriques, Cr´eteil, France
   CNRS, Lab Aerol, Toulouse, France.
   Consiglio Nazl Ric Italiano, Ist Sci Atmosfera & Clima, Bologna, Italy.
   Univ E Anglia, Sch Environm Sci, Norwich NR4 7TJ, Norfolk, England.
   Deutsch Zentrum Luftund Raumfahrt, Inst Phys Atmosphaere, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
   Cent Aerol Observ, Moscow, Russia.
   African Ctr Meteorol Applicat Dev, Niamey, Niger.
C2 IRD, FRANCE
   UNIV ALBANY, USA
   IRD, FRANCE
   CNRM (METEO FRANCE), FRANCE
   UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE
   IRD, FRANCE
   CNRS, FRANCE
   CNRS, FRANCE
   CNRS, FRANCE
   CNRS, FRANCE
   CNR, ITALY
   UNIV E ANGLIA, UK
   DLR, GERMANY
   ISTC, RUSSIA
   ACMAD, NIGER
IN DOAJ
IF 1.66
TC 146
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00203/31457/29861.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR EGEE/1
   EGEE/2
   EGEE/3
   EGEE/4
   EGEE/5
   EGEE/6
   GATE PHASE 1 JEAN CHARCOT
   GATE PHASE 2
   GATE PHASE 2
   GATE PHASE 2 LA PERLE
   GATE PHASE 3
   GATE PHASE 3 BIDASSOA
   GATE PHASE 3 CAP 7406
BO Le Suroît
   L'Atalante
   Antea
   Jean Charcot
   Perle
   Capricorne
   Bidassoa
DE ;meteorology and atmospheric dynamics;climatology;precipitation;tropical meteorology
AB The AMMA (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis) program is dedicated to providing a better understanding of the West African monsoon and its influence on the physical, chemical and biological environment regionally and globally, as well as relating variability of this monsoon system to issues of health, water resources, food security and demography for West African nations. Within this framework, an intensive field campaign took place during the summer of 2006 to better document specific processes and weather systems at various key stages of this monsoon season. This campaign was embedded within a longer observation period that documented the annual cycle of surface and atmospheric conditions between 2005 and 2007. The present paper provides a large and regional scale overview of the 2006 summer monsoon season, that includes consideration of of the convective activity, mean atmospheric circulation and synoptic/intraseasonal weather systems, oceanic and land surface conditions, continental hydrology, dust concentration and ozone distribution. The 2006 African summer monsoon was a near-normal rainy season except for a large-scale rainfall excess north of 15 degrees N. This monsoon season was also characterized by a 10-day delayed onset compared to climatology, with convection becoming developed only after 10 July. This onset delay impacted the continental hydrology, soil moisture and vegetation dynamics as well as dust emission. More details of some less-well-known atmospheric features in the African monsoon at intraseasonal and synoptic scales are provided in order to promote future research in these areas.
PY 2008
SO Annales Geophysicae
SN 0992-7689
PU Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh
VL 26
IS 9
UT 000259702800006
BP 2569
EP 2595
DI 10.5194/angeo-26-2569-2008
ID 31457
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