Regional model simulations of the Bodélé low-level jet of Northern Chad during the Bodélé dust experiment (BoDEx 2005)

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 995-1012

  Todd, Martin C ^a   Washington, Richard ^b   Raghavan, Srivatsan ^a   Lizcano, Gil ^b   Knippertz, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DUST; JETS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND EFFECTS;

DUST EMISSION; LOW-LEVEL JET; MINERAL DUST; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; DUST; JET; PARAMETERIZATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WIND;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); BODELE; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHAD; SAHARA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TIBESTI MASSIF; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 44349144568     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1766.1     Document Type: Article

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