Diurnal and seasonal cycles of cloud occurrences, types, and radiative impact over West Africa

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 534-553

  Bouniol, Dominique ^a   Couvreux, Fleur ^a   Kamsu Tamo, Pierre Honoré ^a   Leplay, Madeleine ^a   Guichard, Françoise ^a   Favot, Florence ^a   O'connor, Ewan J ^b,c  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Africa; Climatology; Cloud cover; Lidars Lidar observations; Radars Radar observations; Radiative forcing; Surface fluxes

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENTS; CALIPSO; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD TYPES; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CLOUDSAT; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DATA SETS; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DIURNAL CYCLE; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; LONG WAVES; MOBILE FACILITY; MONSOON SEASON; NIGER; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RADIATIVE IMPACTS; SAHARAN AIR LAYERS; SEASONAL CYCLE; STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; SURFACE FLUX; WEST AFRICA;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR;

CLOUDS;

CALIPSO; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CLOUDSAT; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DIURNAL VARIATION; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LIDAR; LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADAR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; STRATOCUMULUS; SURFACE FLUX;

NIAMEY [NIGER]; NIGER [WEST AFRICA]; SAHARA;

EID: 84861667487     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-051.1     Document Type: Article

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