Coupled land-atmosphere intraseasonal variability of the West African monsoon in a GCM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 5557-5571

  Lavender, Sally L ^a,c   Taylor, Christopher M ^b   Matthews, Adrian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Africa; Atmosphere land interaction; Climate models; Monsoons; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERE VARIABILITY; ATMOSPHERE-LAND INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CLIMATE MODEL; FULLY-COUPLED; INTRA-SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MOISTURE ADVECTION; MOISTURE VARIABILITY; MONSOONS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHASE LOCKED; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PROPAGATING MODE; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WEST AFRICAN MONSOON; WET SOIL;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS; FEEDBACK; HEAT FLUX; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE;

AFRICA;

EID: 77958101587     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3419.1     Document Type: Article

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