Life cycle of Sahelian mesoscale convective cloud systems

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 127, Issue 572, 2001, Pages 377-406

  Mathon, V ^a   Laurent, H ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic tracking; Climatology; Mesoscale convective systems; METEOSAT infrared data; Sahel

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DIURNAL VARIATION; LIFE CYCLE; METEOSAT; TRACKING;

AFRICA;

EID: 0035086734     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.57207     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. The relationship between fractional coverage of high cloud and rainfall accumulations during GATE over the B-scale array
2. Automatic tracking and characterization of African convective systems on Meteosat pictures
3. Some climatological aspects of West African disturbance lines during GATE
4. Diurnal variation and life cycle of deep convective systems over the tropical Pacific warm pool
5. On the characteristics of the rainfall events in the Sahel with a view to the analysis of climatic variability
6. Characterization of some elements of the Sahelian climate and their interannual variations for July 1983, 1984 and 1985 from the analysis of METEOSAT ISCCP data
7. Easterly wave regimes and associated convection over west Africa and the tropical Atlantic: Results from NCEP/NCAR and ECMWF reanalyses
8. Convection over tropical Africa and the Atlantic ocean during northern summer. Part I: Interannual and diurnal variations
9. Convection over tropical Africa and the Atlantic ocean during northern summer. Part II: Modulation by easterly waves
10. The contribution of mesoscale convective weather systems to the warm-season precipitation in the United States
11. Water budget of a mesoscale convective system in the tropics
12. Feature-point detection using distance transforms: Application to tracking tropical convective complexes
13. Distribution and statistics of African mesoscale convective weather systems based on the ISCCP METEOSAT imagery
14. Remote sensing of rainfall over tropical Africa using METEOSAT infrared imagery: Sensitivity to time and space averaging
15. Mesoscale convective complexes in Africa
16. The global population of mesoscale convective complexes
17. How important is the contribution of the mesoscale convective complexes to the Sahelian rainfall?
18. Structural characteristics and radiative properties of tropical cloud clusters
19. Structural characteristics of deep convective systems over tropical Africa and the Atlantic ocean
20. Diurnal variations and modulation by easterly waves of the size distribution of convective cloud clusters over west Africa and the Atlantic ocean
21. Life cycle variations of mesoscale convective systems over the Americas
22. Mesoscale convective complexes
23. Cloud clusters and superclusters over the oceanic warm pool
24. Characteristics of west African and east Atlantic cloud clusters: A survey from GATE
25. Mesoscale convective complexes in the western Pacific region
26. Automated detection and characterization of MCS using the METEOSAT infrared channel
27. The structure and properties of African wave disturbances as observed during phase III of GATE
28. ISCCP cloud data products
29. On the generation of African squall lines
30. The mean dynamic and thermodynamic fields for July 1989 over tropical North Africa and their relationship to convective storm activity
31. Satellite-observed characteristics of winter monsoon cloud clusters
32. The inference of GATE convective rainfall from SMS-1 imagery