Session 6D Monsoons II

Tuesday, 25 April 2006: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Regency Grand BR 1-3 (Hyatt Regency Monterey)
Host: 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology
Chair:
Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA

Papers:
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
Recorded presentation

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
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (203.9 kB)

11:00 AM
6D.3
The development of intense convective systems in West Africa in wet and dry years, 1998-2005
Karen I. Mohr, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; 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
Recorded presentation

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
Recorded presentation

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
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (2.2 MB)

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