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The AMMA field campaigns : accomplishments and lessons learned / Thierry Lebel in Atmospheric Science Letters, vol 12 n° 1 (January - March 2011)  

Public [article]  inAtmospheric Science Letters > vol 12 n° 1 (January - March 2011) . - pp 123 - 128 Titre : The AMMA field campaigns : accomplishments and lessons learned Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Thierry Lebel, Auteur ; Douglas J. Parker, Auteur ; Cyrille Flamant, Auteur ; Hartmut Höller, Auteur ; Jan Polcher, Auteur ; Jean-Luc Redelsperger, Auteur ; Chris Thorncroft, Auteur ; Olivier Bock , Auteur ; Bernard Bourles, Auteur ; Sylvie Galle, Auteur ; Béatrice Marticorena, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2011 Projets : AMMA & AMMA-2 / Janicot, Serge Article en page(s) : pp 123 - 128 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] aérostat [Termes IGN] Afrique occidentale [Termes IGN] campagne d'expérimentation [Termes IGN] coopération technique [Termes IGN] lidar atmosphérique [Termes IGN] mousson [Termes IGN] photomètre [Termes IGN] radar Résumé : (Auteur) The AMMA (African Monsoon Multidiscplinary Analysis) field programme aimed at documenting the West African Monsoon (WAM) climate system, in all its geophysical components. It also includes an important socio‐economic component. Encompassing a wide range of spatial and time scales, AMMA is one of the most ambitious such programmes ever set up. While the key accomplishments of AMMA are summarised in this paper, a few lessons of broad interest are also drawn both as a tribute to the extraordinary efforts made by a community of several hundreds of people and as possible guidelines for ensuring a long lasting future to integrated climate and environmental studies in West Africa. Copyright © 2011 Royal Meteorological Society Numéro de notice : A2011-592 Affiliation des auteurs : LAREG+Ext (1991-2011) Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1002/asl.323 Date de publication en ligne : 22/02/2011 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.323 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=91515 [article]

Large-scale overview of the summer monsoon over West Africa during the AMMA field experiment in 2006 / Serge Janicot in Annales Geophysicae, vol 26 n° 9 (September 2008)  

Public [article]  inAnnales Geophysicae > vol 26 n° 9 (September 2008) . - pp 2569 - 2595 Titre : Large-scale overview of the summer monsoon over West Africa during the AMMA field experiment in 2006 Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Serge Janicot, Auteur ; Chris Thorncroft, Auteur ; A. Ali, Auteur ; Nicole Asencio, Auteur ; Gérard Berry, Auteur ; Olivier Bock , Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2008 Projets : AMMA & AMMA-2 / Janicot, Serge Article en page(s) : pp 2569 - 2595 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] Afrique occidentale [Termes IGN] circulation atmosphérique [Termes IGN] mousson Résumé : (auteur) The AMMA (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis) program is dedicated to providing a better understanding of the West African monsoon and its influence on the physical, chemical and biological environment regionally and globally, as well as relating variability of this monsoon system to issues of health, water resources, food security and demography for West African nations. Within this framework, an intensive field campaign took place during the summer of 2006 to better document specific processes and weather systems at various key stages of this monsoon season. This campaign was embedded within a longer observation period that documented the annual cycle of surface and atmospheric conditions between 2005 and 2007. The present paper provides a large and regional scale overview of the 2006 summer monsoon season, that includes consideration of of the convective activity, mean atmospheric circulation and synoptic/intraseasonal weather systems, oceanic and land surface conditions, continental hydrology, dust concentration and ozone distribution. The 2006 African summer monsoon was a near-normal rainy season except for a large-scale rainfall excess north of 15° N. This monsoon season was also characterized by a 10-day delayed onset compared to climatology, with convection becoming developed only after 10 July. This onset delay impacted the continental hydrology, soil moisture and vegetation dynamics as well as dust emission. More details of some less-well-known atmospheric features in the African monsoon at intraseasonal and synoptic scales are provided in order to promote future research in these areas. Numéro de notice : A2008-599 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.5194/angeo-26-2569-2008 Date de publication en ligne : 01/09/2008 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-26-2569-2008 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=103433 [article]