Intercomparison and analyses of the climatology of the West African Monsoon in the West African Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation project (WAMME) first model intercomparison experiment

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-27

  Xue, Yongkang ^a   e Sales, Fernando ^a   Lau, W K M ^b   Boone, Aaron ^c   Feng, Jinming ^a,d   Dirmeyer, Paul ^e   Guo, Zhichang ^e   Kim, Kyu Myong ^f   Kitoh, Akio ^g   Kumar, Vadlamani ^h,i   Poccard Leclercq, Isabelle ^j   Mahowald, Natalie ^k   Moufouma Okia, Wilfran ^l   Pegion, Phillip ^b,h   Rowell, David P ^l   Schemm, Jae ^h   Schubert, Siegfried D ^b   Sealy, Andrea ^m   Thiaw, Wassila M ^h   Vintzileos, Augustin ^h,n   Williams, Steven F ^o   Wu, Man Li C ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^e Ctr for Ocean Land Atmosphere Stds   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^g METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^h CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ WYLE Information Systems   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^k Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^l MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^m Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology Husbands   (Barbados)

ⁿ SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^o NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; ZONAL WIND;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 77954145216     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0778-2     Document Type: Article

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