Effects of soil moisture gradients on the path and the intensity of a West African squall line

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 653, 2010, Pages 2162-2175

  Wolters, Dirk ^a   Van Heerwaarden, Chiel C ^a   De Arellano, Jordi Vilà Guerau ^a   Cappelaere, Bernard ^b   Ramier, David ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Soil moisture; Squall line; West African monsoon; WRF ARW

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; LENGTH SCALE; MESOSCALE; MODEL RESULTS; MOISTURE GRADIENT; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POSITIVE EFFECTS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; SOIL MOISTURE AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL SCALE; SQUALL LINES; SYSTEMATIC DEVIATION; TEMPORAL SCALE; WEATHER MODELS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING; WEST-AFRICAN MONSOON; WESTERN AREA; WRF-ARW;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; FEEDBACK; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FLOW PATTERN; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SQUALL LINE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 78650048053     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.712     Document Type: Article

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