The onset of the West African monsoon simulated in a high-resolution atmospheric general circulation model with reanalyzed soil moisture fields

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 103-107

  Yamada, T J ^a   Kanae, S ^b   Oki, T ^c   Hirabayashi, Y ^d  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

African Easterly Jet; AGCM; Soil moisture; West African monsoon

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY BALANCE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; JET; MONSOON; SOIL MOISTURE;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84859783612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.367     Document Type: Article

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