ARTICLES: The Impact of the Saharan Air Layer on Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity.

By J. Dunion, C. Velden. 2004

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Atmospheric Science

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2. Mark DeMaria
3. R. Rogers
4. Sally McFarlane
5. J. Kaplan
6. L. Shay
7. Sharon E. Nicholson
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In Global and Planetary Change

1. Sally McFarlane
2. R. Rogers
3. J. Kaplan
4. William Cotton
5. Mark DeMaria
6. L. Shay
7. Sharon E. Nicholson
8. J. Knaff

In Oceanography

1. William Cotton
2. Mark DeMaria
3. R. Rogers
4. Sharon E. Nicholson
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Citations in the corpus

• Convective-Scale Structure and Evolution during a High-Resolution Simulation of Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification (2010, result): “These findings are consistent with what has been found by previous observational and modeling studies on environmental conditions associated with intensity change and RI (e.g., Molinari et al. 1995; Bosart et al. 2000; Dunion and Velden 2004; Shay et al. 2000; Hong et al. 2000).”
• Influence of Environmental Humidity on Tropical Cyclone Size (2009, result): “…RH values was imposed in order to provide a robust test of sensitivity to this parameter rather than to specifically reflect conditions in nature; however, the 20RH simulation could be analogous to conditions near the Saharan air layer in the North Atlantic (e.g., Dunion and Velden 2004, their Fig.”
• Observations of the impact of a major Saharan dust storm on the atmospheric radiation balance (2006, background): “Such events may also suppress the growth of Atlantic tropical cyclones [ Dunion and Velden, 2004 ].”
• CRISPRED: A data pipeline for the CRISP imaging spectropolarimeter (2014, background): “Particularly in calima conditions, when the Saharan air layer, an elevated (1000–5500 m) layer of dry air and mineral dust originating from the Saharan desert, forms over large parts of the northern equatorial Atlantic (e.g., Dunion & Velden 2004).”
• Aerosol Effects on Microstructure and Intensity of Tropical Cyclones (2012, methodology): “At the same time, reports of decreasing storm intensity associated with desert dust (Dunion and Velden 2004) motivated similar independent simulations by H.”
• Further improvements to the Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme (SHIPS) (2005, methodology): “Dunion and Velden (2004) have shown that total precipitable water analysis from microwave imagery has the potential to provide a better method for identifying the SAL than current global model analyses.”
• The West African Sahel: A Review of Recent Studies on the Rainfall Regime and Its Interannual Variability (2013, background): “The east-west extent of the SAL is typically 2000–3000 km, but it can extend some 5000 km, covering an area about the size of the contiguous United States [161].”