Life cycle of Sahelian mesoscale convective cloud systems

By Vincent Mathon, H. Laurent. 2001

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Forecast and Tracking the Evolution of Cloud Clusters (ForTraCC) Using Satellite Infrared Imagery: Methodology and Validation (2008, methodology): “Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) are responsible for most of the warm-season rainfall over tropical South America (Velasco and Fritsch 1987; Vila 2005), the Sahelian region ( Mathon and Laurent 2001 ), and various regions of the world.”
Deep Convective System Evolution over Africa and the Tropical Atlantic (2007, methodology): “For the hourly data used here, our overlap criterion can accommodate both the rapidly moving ( 60–80 km h (1): Machado et al. 1998; Mathon and Laurent 2001) squall lines (provided these are larger than a few GERB footprints) and the slower nonsquall clusters found in this region (Houze and Betts 198”
Multiyear simulation of the African climate using a regional climate model (RegCM3) with the high resolution ERA-interim reanalysis (2010, background): “Most of the long-lived squall lines that cross the region are observed to occur in the vicinity of the jet (Mathon and Laurent 2001) and most of the precipitation in West Africa is associated with MCSs (D’Amato and Lebel 1998), which are organized along the AEJ (Mathon and Laurent 2001).”
Regional climate modelling of the 2006 West African monsoon: sensitivity to convection and planetary boundary layer parameterisation using WRF (2011, background): “Among the most important WAM weather systems, the mesoscale convective systems (MCS) are responsible for most of the rainfall production (Mathon and Laurent 2001; Mathon et al. 2002).”
Three-Dimensional Structure and Dynamics of African Easterly Waves. Part I: Observations (2006, background): “An orographically favored genesis area for MCSs has been identified at around this location (e.g., Rowell and Milford 1993; Hodges and Thorncroft 1997; Mathon and Laurent 2001), in line with the notion that at least some waves could be trig-”