Session 6D |
| | Monsoons II |
| | Chair: Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
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| 10:30 AM | 6D.1 | A new conceptual model for the meridional circulation of the West African monsoon
Chidong Zhang, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and P. Woodworth |
| 10:45 AM | 6D.2 | The onset of the West African monsoon: A numerical study  
Samson M. Hagos, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; and K. H. Cook |
| 11:00 AM | 6D.3 | The development of intense convective systems in West Africa in wet and dry years, 1998-2005
Karen I. Mohr, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and C. Thorncroft |
| 11:15 AM | 6D.4 | Rainfall types and associated vertical stability-shear weather regimes during the 2002 West African monsoon season
Andreas H. Fink, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany; and V. Ermert and D. G. Vincent |
| 11:30 AM | 6D.5 | Nocturnal Stratiform Cloudiness and the Structure of the Atmosphere during the West African Summer Monsoon
Jon M. Schrage, Creighton Univ., Omaha, NE; and S. Augustyn and A. H. Fink |
| 11:45 AM | 6D.6 | An unusual dry-season precipitation event over West Africa: The role of an extratropical upper-level disturbance for the heat low and a surge in the monsoonal southwesterlies
Peter Knippertz, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany; and A. H. Fink |