Contributors |
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Foreword |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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Acronyms |
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1 Mean Climate and Seasonal Cycle |
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1.2 Rainfall and Evaporation Climatologies |
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1.3 Water Vapour and Clouds |
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1.4 Radiation, Dust, Sunshine Duration, Vegetation and Soil Water |
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1.5 Pressure, Temperature, Humidity and Wind at the Surface |
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1.6 Upper Air Wind, Mass and Humidity Fields |
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1.6.1 An Eulerian Perspective on the Wind, Circulation and Dynamics |
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1.6.2 A Lagrangian Perspective on the Circulation |
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1.7 Summary Schematics of the January and July West African Monsoon System |
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2 Synoptic Systems |
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2.1 Scientific Background |
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2.1.2 Continental-scale Synoptic Features |
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2.1.2.2 The Intertropical Discontinuity or Intertropical Front |
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2.1.2.3 African Easterly Jet |
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2.1.3 African Easterly Waves |
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2.1.3.2 Observed Synoptic Structure of African Easterly Waves, Analyses and Statistical Composites |
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2.1.3.3 African Easterly Wave Structure |
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2.1.3.4 African Easterly Wave Genesis |
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2.1.3.5 African Easterly Wave Dynamics and Evolution |
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2.1.3.6 Relationship with Deep Convection |
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2.1.3.7 Downstream Transformation |
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2.1.4 Mid-latitude Troughs and Upper-level Troughs |
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2.1.5 Extratropical Dry Air Intrusions |
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2.1.6 Guinea Coast Systems |
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2.1.6.1 Guinea Coast Cloud and Rainfall |
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2.1.6.2 The Little Dry Season |
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2.1.7 Synoptic-scale Land-surface Feedbacks |
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2.2 Operational Methods and Canonical Synoptic Patterns |
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2.2.1 Synoptic Fields and Main Inferences |
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2.2.2 African Easterly Wave Case Studies and Canonical Structures |
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2.2.2.1 An Archetypal African Easterly Wave Event: Case Study CS02, 12-16 August 2012 |
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2.2.2.2 African Easterly Wave Breaking Events |
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2.2.2.3 Coastal Development of African Easterly Waves |
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2.2.3 Dry-season Thunderstorms in West Africa |
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3 Deep Convection |
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3.1 Scientific Background |
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3.1.1.1 Is Convection Different over Africa? |
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3.1.1.2 Interaction Between Convection and the Larger Scale Flow |
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3.1.1.3 Aims of this Chapter |
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3.1.2 Processes and Factors Governing Convection |
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3.1.2.1 Convective Updraughts |
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3.1.2.2 Downdraughts, Downdraught Available Convective Potential Energy and Density Currents |
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3.1.3 Organisation of Deep Convection |
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3.1.3.1 Different Types of Organisation |
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3.1.3.2 The Squall-line Conceptual Model |
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3.1.3.3 Climatology and Classification of Mesoscale Convective Systems |
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3.1.4 Life Cycle and Diurnal Cycle |
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3.1.4.2 The Diurnal Cycle |
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3.2.1 Life Cycle of Convection on 12-16 August 2012 (CS02) |
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3.2.1.6 Suppressed Convection |
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3.2.2 A Cold Pool Case Study, 27 September 2014 (CS14) |
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3.2.3 Forecasting Areas of Storm Initiation or Suppression |
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3.2.3.1 Synoptic Conditions and Stability |
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3.2.3.2 History of Recent Storms |
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3.2.3.3 Use of Numerical Weather Prediction to Forecast Convective Initiation |
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3.2.4 Forecasting Storm Types |
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3.2.4.1 Organisation, Longevity, Speed and Direction |
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3.2.4.2 Weather Phenomena |
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3.2.5 Forecasting Suppression of Convection |
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4 Local Weather |
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4.1 Scientific Background |
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4.1.2 The Surface Energy Balance and the Atmospheric Surface Layer |
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4.1.2.1 Surface Energy Balance Principles |
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4.1.2.2 Surface-layer Winds |
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4.1.2.3 The Surface Energy Balance over West African Climatic Zones |
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4.1.2.4 Variation of Surface Energy Balance and Surface Temperatures in Response to Physical Processes |
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4.1.3 Boundary Layer over West Africa: Diurnal Cycle |
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4.1.3.1 Daytime Convective Boundary Layer |
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4.1.3.2 Night-time Planetary Boundary Layer |
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4.1.3.4 Marine Planetary Boundary Layer |
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4.1.4 Local Winds: Mesoscale Variability and Circulations |
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4.1.4.1 Coherent Structures in the Winds: Convergence Lines and Gravity Currents |
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4.1.4.2 The Sea Breeze and the Land Breeze |
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4.1.4.3 Topographically Forced Winds |
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4.1.4.4 Local Winds and Convergence Associated with Soil Moisture and Vegetation Boundaries |
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4.1.4.5 Trapped Waves, Bores and Solitary Waves |
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4.1.5 Convective Rainfall Distribution on the Local Scale |
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4.1.5.1 Cumulus Congestus Clouds |
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4.1.5.2 Land Surface Controls on Rainfall: Soil Moisture and Vegetation |
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4.2.1 Forecasting of Maximum and Minimum Temperatures (Tx, Tn) |
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4.2.1.1 Statistically Based Forecasts |
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4.2.1.2 Physical Methods Based on Sounding Data |
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4.2.1.3 Integration with Numerical Weather Prediction Data |
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4.2.1.4 Physical Processes Influencing Daily Temperatures |
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4.2.2.1 Basic Principles of Visibility Forecasting |
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4.2.3 Forecasting Wind Shear and Turbulence |
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4.2.4 Forecasting Land, Sea and Lake Breezes |
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4.2.5.1 Winds over the Sea |
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4.2.5.3 Visibility over the Sea |
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4.2.6.1 Forecasts/Warnings |
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4.2.6.2 Routeing of Ships |
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5 Dust |
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5.1 Scientific Background |
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5.1.1.3 Wet and Dry Deposition |
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5.1.2 Meteorological Systems |
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5.1.4 Interactions with Weather and Climate |
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5.1.4.1 Direct Radiative Effect |
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5.1.4.2 Impact on Atmospheric Stability |
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5.1.4.3 Impact on Cloud Microphysics |
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5.1.4.4 Fertilisations of Ecosystems by Dust |
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5.2.1 Introduction and Structure |
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5.2.2.1 Surface Station Data |
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5.2.2.2 Surface and Pressure-level Charts |
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5.2.2.4 Numerical Model Predictions of Dust |
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5.2.3 Practical Guidelines for Forecasters |
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5.2.3.2 Forecasting Harmattan Dust Haze |
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5.2.3.3 Forecasting Convective Dust Storms |
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5.2.4 Case Study Examples Online |
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6 Nowcasting |
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6.1 Scientific Background |
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6.1.2.1 Convective Weather Outlook |
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6.1.2.2 Conceptual Models and Climatology |
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6.1.2.3 Stability Analyses |
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6.1.2.5 Extrapolation of Existing Storms |
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6.1.2.6 Nowcasting Storm Initiation and Evolution |
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6.2 Operational Methods for Nowcasting Severe Weather |
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6.2.1 Thunderstorms, Hail and Flash Floods |
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6.2.2 Procedure for Nowcasting Thunderstorms, Hail and Flash Floods |
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6.2.4 Procedure for Nowcasting Wind Shear |
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6.2.6 Procedure for Nowcasting Lightning |
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Appendix B: Checklist for Improving Operational Nowcasting Capability |
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Appendix D: Online Web Sites Containing Weather-related Training Materials |
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7 Subseasonal Forecasting |
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7.1 Scientific Background |
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7.1.2.2 Sea Surface Temperature |
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7.1.2.3 Outgoing Longwave Radiation |
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7.1.2.4 Brightness Temperature |
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7.1.3 Detection of the Main Modes of Subseasonal Variability of Convection |
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7.1.4 Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves |
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7.1.4.2 Equatorial Rossby Waves |
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7.1.4.3 Mixed Rossby-Gravity Waves |
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7.1.5 Other Convectively Coupled Signals and Links with Equatorial Waves |
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7.1.5.1 Signals Between 10 and 25 Days |
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7.1.5.2 Periodicities Between 25 and 90 Days and the Madden-Julian Oscillation |
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7.1.6 Mechanisms for Dry- and Wet-spell Frequency |
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7.1.7 Onset of the Monsoon and Rainfall |
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7.1.7.4 Summary and Outlook |
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7.2.1.1 Madden-Julian Oscillation Predictions |
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7.2.1.2 Prediction of Regional Climate Anomalies |
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7.2.2 Guidelines for Operational Forecasting |
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7.2.2.1 State of the Madden-Julian Oscillation |
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7.2.2.2 Consensus Outlooks |
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7.2.2.3 Forecast Verifications |
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8 Seasonal Forecasting |
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8.1 Scientific Background |
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8.1.2 Sea Surface Temperature Teleconnections |
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8.1.3 Statistical Forecasts |
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8.1.3.2 Representation of Predictors: Sea Surface Temperature Empirical Orthogonal Function Predictors |
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8.1.3.3 Representation of Predictands |
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8.1.3.4 Assessment of Statistical Methods |
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8.1.3.5 Performance over 1996-2009 |
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8.1.4 Dynamical Forecasts |
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8.1.4.1 Performance over 1996-2009 |
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8.1.4.2 Correction of Systematic Errors in Models |
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8.1.4.3 Future Models: Potential for Improving Seasonal Forecasts |
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8.1.4.4 Long-lead Predictability |
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8.1.5.1 Performance over 1996-2009 |
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8.1.6 Other Variables and Seasons |
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8.1.6.1 Prediction of Outflow from Lake Volta |
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8.1.6.2 Prediction of Meningococcal Meningitis in the West Africa Dry Season |
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8.1.6.3 Applying Seasonal Forecasts to Assist Agriculture in Senegal |
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8.2.1 International Seasonal Forecast web sites: Sources of Information |
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8.2.1.1 World Meteorological Organization Lead Centre Multimodel Ensemble web site |
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8.2.1.2 Long-range Forecast Verifications |
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8.2.1.3 UK Met Office web site |
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8.2.1.4 ECMWF/EUROSIP web site |
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8.2.1.6 International Research Institute for Climate and Society Seasonal Forecast web site |
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8.2.1.7 African Center of Meteorological Application for Development web site |
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8.2.2 Consensus Forecasts |
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8.2.2.1 The PRESAO Process |
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8.2.2.2 Assessment of PRESAO Forecasts 1998-2007 |
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8.2.3.1 The Climate Predictability Tool |
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8.2.3.2 International Research Institute for Climate and Society Data Library |
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8.2.3.3 KNMI Climate Explorer |
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8.2.3.4 NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Interactive web site |
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8.2.4 Other web sites Including Forecast Applications |
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8.2.5 Hints and Recommendations |
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Appendix B: Empirical Orthogonal Functions |
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9 Remote Sensing |
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9.1 Scientific Background |
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9.1.1 The Global Satellite Observing System |
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9.1.1.2 Advantages and Limitations of Geosynchronous and Low-earth-orbit Satellites |
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9.1.1.3 Scanning and Viewing Geometry |
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9.1.2 Scientific Basis of Remote Sensing |
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9.1.2.1 Electromagnetic Spectrum |
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9.1.2.2 Radiance and Blackbody Radiation |
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9.1.2.3 Radiative Transfer |
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9.1.2.5 Passive and Active Remote Sensing |
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9.1.3 Spectral Bands or Channels |
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9.1.3.1 Visible and Infrared Channels |
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9.1.3.2 Microwave Channels |
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9.1.4 Multispectral Analysis: Visualised Products |
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9.1.4.1 Classification Using Individual Channels |
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9.1.4.2 Differencing or Ratio of Two Channels |
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9.1.4.3 Quantitative Feature Extraction |
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9.1.4.5 Blended or 'Sandwich' Image Products |
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9.1.5 Satellite Retrieval of Meteorological Parameters |
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9.1.5.2 Vertical Structure of Temperature, Humidity and Winds |
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9.1.5.6 Fire, Smoke and Haze |
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9.1.5.9 Surface Wetness and Vegetation |
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9.1.5.10 Ocean Surface Winds |
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9.1.6.1 Weather Radar Basics |
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9.1.6.2 Ground and Satellite Weather Radar Products |
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9.2.1 Platforms and Sensors |
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9.2.1.1 Geostationary Satellites and Sensors |
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9.2.1.2 Low-earth-orbiting Satellites |
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9.2.1.3 Satellite Operational Analysis Tools and Products |
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9.2.1.4 Radar Operational Analysis Tools |
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9.2.2 Large-scale Feature Identification |
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9.2.2.1 Intertropical Discontinuity and Intertropical Convergence Zone |
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9.2.2.2 Subseasonal Circulations: Madden-Julian Oscillation, Equatorial Waves |
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9.2.3 Mesoscale and Local-scale Analysis |
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9.2.3.1 Mesoscale Circulations |
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9.2.3.2 Mesoscale Convective Systems |
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9.2.3.3 Dust and Sand Storms |
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9.2.3.4 Convective Cells, Outflow Boundaries, Cloud Lines |
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9.2.4 Fog and Low Stratus |
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9.2.5 Satellite Soundings |
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9.2.9 Sources of Satellite Products |
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9.3 Case Study, Presentations and Other Resources |
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9.3.1 Radar and Satellite Analysis |
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9.3.1.1 Mesoscale Convective Systems and an African Easterly Wave |
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9.3.1.2 Tropical Cyclone, Undular Bore and Other Cloud Systems |
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9.3.3 Education and Training |
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10 Numerical Weather Prediction over Africa |
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10.1 Scientific Background |
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380 | (17) |
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10.1.2 Deterministic Numerical Weather Prediction Systems |
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382 | (13) |
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10.1.2.2 Data Assimilation |
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387 | (2) |
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10.1.2.3 Global and Regional Numerical Weather Prediction Models |
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389 | (5) |
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10.1.2.4 Convective-scale Models |
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10.1.2.5 Model Output Statistics |
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10.1.3 Ensemble Prediction and Atmospheric Predictability |
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10.1.4 Summary and Future Capability |
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396 | (1) |
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10.2 Operational Numerical Weather Prediction over Africa |
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10.2.1 Current Capability of Deterministic Numerical Weather Prediction Forecasts |
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10.2.1.1 Precipitation and Moisture Budget in Numerical Weather Prediction Models and Analyses |
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10.2.1.2 Near-surface Temperatures and Humidities |
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10.2.1.3 Low-level Monsoon Flow and Saharan Heat Low |
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10.2.1.4 African Easterly Jet |
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10.2.1.5 African Easterly Waves |
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10.2.2 Predicting Severe Weather and Modelling Uncertainty |
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10.2.2.1 Ensemble Forecasts from Deterministic Predictions |
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10.2.2.2 World Meteorological Organization Severe Weather Forecast Demonstration Project |
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10.2.2.3 Convective (Kilometre)-scale Modelling |
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11 West African Synthetic Analysis and Forecast: WASA/F |
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11.2 The Intertropical Discontinuity/Intertropical Front, or Intertropical Boundary in Ghana |
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425 | (1) |
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11.2.1 Main Characteristics |
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11.3 The Heat Low or Thermal Depression |
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11.3.1 Main Characteristics |
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11.5 Features Associated with Mid-latitudes |
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11.6.1 Main Characteristics |
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11.7 The Tropical Easterly Jet |
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11.7.1 Main Characteristics |
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431 | (2) |
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11.8 The African Easterly Jet |
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433 | (2) |
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11.8.1 Main Characteristics |
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433 | (1) |
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11.9 African Easterly Waves and Cyclonic Vortices |
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435 | (6) |
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11.9.1 Main Characteristics |
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435 | (2) |
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437 | (4) |
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11.10 The African Monsoon Layer and the Monsoon Trough |
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441 | (3) |
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11.10.1 Main Characteristics |
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444 | (1) |
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11.12.1 Analysis of the Convective Activity |
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445 | (1) |
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11.12.2 Forecast Rules and Required Diagnostics for Convection |
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445 | (6) |
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451 | (1) |
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