Convective activity over Africa and the tropical Atlantic inferred from 20 Years of geostationary Meteosat infrared observations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 156-169

  Bennartz, Ralf ^a   Schroeder, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN EASTERLY JET; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; DATA SETS; DEEP CONVECTION; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; INFRARED CHANNEL; INFRARED IMAGERS; INFRARED OBSERVATIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; METEOSAT; OCEAN SURFACES; RAINFALL ESTIMATES; SATELLITE PLATFORMS; SUMMER MONTHS; TIME-PERIODS; TRACKING ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; NATURAL CONVECTION; TIME SERIES; TROPICS;

RAIN;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA SET; EASTERLY WAVE; JET FLOW; METEOSAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

EID: 84856955909     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3984.1     Document Type: Article

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