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West African Monsoon and its Modeling. Highlights of new African simulations. West African Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation. WAMME): A CIMS/CEOP initiative. As Phase-I (2002-2005) for CEOP is completing, two full annual cycles (2003-2004) of research-quality data sets from satellites, reference sites, and model output location time series (MOLTS) have been processed and made available for data analyses and model validation studies. In Phase-II, CEOP Inter-Monsoon Model Study. A) To provide better understa...

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West African Monsoon and its Modeling. Highlights of new African simulations. Table List of WAMME-2 GCMs. Iacono et al. (2008) and Mlawer et al. (1997). Zhang and MaFarlane (1995) with modifications based on Richter and Rasch (2008) and Raymond and Blyth (1986, 1992). Bretherton and Park, 2009;. Park and Bretherton, 2009. Microphysics: Morrison and Gettelman (2008); Gettelman et al. (2010);. Macrophysics: Park et al. (2010). Easter et al., 2004. KInter et al., 1997). Hong and Pan, 1996. Japan U. Of.

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West African Monsoon and its Modeling. Highlights of new African simulations. The forcing data are posted on the AMMA website. Ftpbddamma.ipsl.polytechnique.fr. The monthly mean SST has 1 degree horizontal resolution. The file name is the same as the Case name in the WAMME-2 Experiment. For instance, the SST file for Case. SST50pasi is named as SST50pasi. To convert it to plain binary file, you may use GrADS and do following to save it to binary file. Set fwrite sstclim.binary. Set x 1 360. Set y 1 180.

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West African Monsoon and its Modeling. Highlights of new African simulations. WAMME-2 LULCC Experiment Summary.

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West African Monsoon and its Modeling. Forcing and Boundary Data. Highlights of new African simulations.

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West African Monsoon and its Modeling. Highlights of new African simulations. AMMA Land surface Model Intercomparison Project (ALMIP). Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques (CNRM-GAME, Meteo-France). Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Interactions (COLA, U.S.A). CNR - IBIMET (Italy). Cornell University (U.S.A). Tomohito@eng.hokudai.ac.jp. Imo State University (NIGERIA). Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Ghana). Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement (LSCE, France). Man Li C. Wu.

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West African Monsoon and its Modeling Special Issue. Highlights of new African simulations. Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Météo-France Toulouse, France. Columbia University and NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NY, USA. Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, MD, USA. Met Office Hadley Centre, U.K. Abdou Moumouni University, Niger. National Center for Environmental Prediction, MD, USA. Yongkang Xue (Coordinator),. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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West African Monsoon and its Modeling. Highlights of new African simulations. January 1, 2006 will be used as the initial condition for all the cases (including SST, aerosol, and land). Each model group uses the aerosol distributions currently applied in their model simulations. Table 1 Cases for the SST experiments. Clim anomaly based on the maximum PC1 in the 50s. Clim anomaly based on the maximum PC1 in the 50s but no anomaly in the Pacific Ocean. Clim anomaly based on the minimum PC1 in the 80s.

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West African Monsoon and its Modeling. Highlights of new African simulations. NASA/GISS Latest Animation: Animation of UKMO GCM, from 1 April to October 30,2004, at 850 mb, and TRMM observations of 3-Hourly precipitation rates with streamlines of near surface circulation (at 925 mb) from Reanalysis 2 for September 2006, AMMA Special Observing Period-3:. TRMM and NCEP Reanalysis II observational data Animations, from 1 April to October 30, 2004:. Reference: Druyan, Fulakeza and Lonergan, 2006: Mesoscale a...