Dynamics and predictability of a heavy dry-season precipitation event over West Africa - Sensitivity experiments with a global model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 189-206

  Meier, Florian ^a   Knippertz, Peter ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EXTRATROPICS; EXTREME EVENTS; GLOBAL MODELS; HEAVY PRECIPITATIONS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LEAD-TIME; LOCAL POPULATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC; POTENTIAL VORTICITY INVERSIONS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; RAIN RATES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SEASON PRECIPITATIONS; TIME-SCALE; WAVE AMPLIFICATIONS; WAVE STRUCTURES; WEATHER SERVICES; WEST-AFRICA;

AMPLIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COASTAL ZONES; DYNAMICS; SEAWATER; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DRY SEASON; EXTREME EVENT; FORECASTING METHOD; MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAPE VERDE; MACARONESIA;

EID: 64149095506     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2622.1     Document Type: Article

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