26th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Session 3B: Monsoon I

Monday, 3 May 2004: 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
Napoleon I Room (Deauville Beach Resort)
Chair:  Chris Thorncroft, SUNY
Papers:
  1:45 PM
Tropical-extratropical interactions causing precipitation in Northwest and West Africa: Part II: Dynamics
Peter Knippertz, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. H. Fink and J. E. Martin

 
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The simulation of the seasonal cycle of the West African monsoon in a AGCM

  2:15 PM
The intra-seasonal variability of convection in the West African monsoon
Flore Mounier, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Palaiseau, France; and S. Janicot

  2:30 PM
The influence of the land surface on the dynamics of the West African Monsoon.
R J Ellis, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and D. J. Parker and C. M. Taylor

  2:45 PM
Oceanic forcing of Sahel rainfall on interannual to interdecadal time scales
Alessandra Giannini, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction/Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and R. Saravanan and P. Chang

  3:00 PM
An Idealized Approach of the West African Monsoon
Philippe Peyrillé, CNRM, Météo-France, and CNRS, Toulouse, France; and C. Piriou, J. P. Lafore, and J. L. Redelsperger

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  3:15 PM
Experiments on Intraseasonal Prediction Using the NCEP Global Forecast System Coupled to the MOM3 Ocean Model
Stephen J. Lord, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Wang, S. Saha, and H. L. Pan