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Section 4: Synoptic Easterly Waves

Section 4: Synoptic Easterly Waves. Section 4: Synoptic Easterly Waves. 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Mean State over West Africa 4.3 Observations of African Easterly Waves 4.4 Theory 4.5 Modeling 4.6 Hot Topics: 4.6.1 Genesis 4.6.2 Scale Interactions

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Section 4: Easterly Waves

Section 4: Easterly Waves. Section 4: Easterly Waves. 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Mean State over West Africa 4.3 Observations of African Easterly Waves 4.4 Theory 4.5 Modeling 4.6 Hot Topics: 4.6.1 Genesis 4.6.2 Scale Interactions 4.6.3 Relationship to Tropical Cyclogenesis

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551 Tropical

551 Tropical. Advanced Topics. Trade Wind Inversion. One starts with subsidence in the subtropics. But the subsidence is not zonally uniform: greater in the eastern side of the oceans.

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Hurricanes and Extratropical Cyclones

Hurricanes and Extratropical Cyclones. Chapter 10. Learning Objectives. Understand the weather conditions that create, maintain, and dissipate cyclones Understand the difficulties in forecasting cyclone behavior

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551 Tropical

551 Tropical. Advanced Topics. Trade Wind Inversion. One starts with subsidence in the subtropics. But the subsidence is not zonally uniform: greater in the eastern side of the oceans.

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551 Tropical

551 Tropical. Advanced Topics. Trade Wind Inversion. One starts with subsidence in the subtropics. But the subsidence is not zonally uniform: greater in the eastern side of the oceans.

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Tropical Cyclone Climatology

Tropical Cyclone Climatology. Where do TCs occur? When? Why? How Many?. Tropical Cyclone Definitions. Tropical Cyclone (TC) Generic term for a non-frontal synoptic-scale low pressure system over tropical or subtropical waters with organized

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Dust modelling in HiGAM Presentation for DUST workshop, Reading 26 th Feb 2008

Dust modelling in HiGAM Presentation for DUST workshop, Reading 26 th Feb 2008. Margaret Woodage Environmental Systems Science Centre University of Reading, U.K. UK-HiGEM Project.

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551 Tropical

551 Tropical. Advanced Topics. Trade Wind Inversion. Trade Wind or Subtropical Inversion. The height of the base of this inversion varies from about 500 m at the eastern extremities of the subtropical highs to about 2000 m at the western and equatorial extremities.

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NAME PRIMER

NAME PRIMER. NAME Homepage: http://www.joss.ucar.edu/name. OUTLINE. PROGRAM RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES NAME 2004 FIELD CAMPAIGN Field Observation Networks (Tiers I, II, III) NAME MODELING AND DATA ASSIMILATION Science Questions and Activities (Tiers I, II, III). WHAT IS NAME ?.

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Localized Severe Weather Easterly Waves, Thunderstorms and Tornadoes

Localized Severe Weather Easterly Waves, Thunderstorms and Tornadoes. Ch 7 pt 2: Localized Atmospheric Disturbances. Source: NOAA Photo Library http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/collections.html. Fig. 7-19. Easterly Waves Formation Path Non-cyclonic Convergence Relationship to Hurricanes.

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Regional Climate Modeling Simulations of the West African Climate System

Regional Climate Modeling Simulations of the West African Climate System. Gregory S. Jenkins, Amadou Gaye, Bamba Sylla LPASF AF20. Rational for Regional models. Why use regional climate models for West Africa. Orography (Guinea highlands, Jos Plateau) Lakes (Lake Chad) Coastline

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Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC)

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2014 North American Monsoon (NAM) Outlook for Central and Northern New Mexico

Updated 5/25/2014. 2014 North American Monsoon (NAM) Outlook for Central and Northern New Mexico.

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Tropical Waves

Tropical Waves. Composite of TRMM Rainfall and Ocean Surface Wind Anomalies April 2000-2003 Eastward propagating Kelvin waves. From Wang and Fu (2005). Outline. African Easterly Waves Equatorial Waves Inertio-Gravity Waves Rossby Waves Mixed Rossby-Gravity Waves Kelvin Waves.

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Meso-?: Easterly wave critical layer Isolated recirculation regions Inertia gravity waves

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Detailed Observations of Five African Easterly Waves During NAMMA

Detailed Observations of Five African Easterly Waves During NAMMA F. J. Schmidlin (NASA) , B. J. Morrison (SSAI), E. T. Northam (SSAI), J. Gerlach (NASA) NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia. 22 Aug 2006 / 00 UTC TD at T-6 hrs TS Debby at T+24 hrs

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