The West African Sahel is well known for the severe droughts that ravaged the region in the
1970s and 1980s. Meteorological research on the region has flourished during the last …

This contribution provides a review of the most recent wavelet applications in the field of
earth sciences and is devoted to introducing and illustrating new wavelet analysis methods …

One motivation for setting up the CATCH (Couplage de l'Atmosphère Tropicale et du Cycle
Hydrologique) project at the end of the 1990s, was to contribute to documenting the …

This chapter reviews the progress made in the past decade in understanding tropical
Atlantic climate variability. In addition to an equatorially anti-symmetric seasonal cycle forced …

Three-Dimensional Structure and Dynamics of African Easterly Waves. Part I: Observations in:
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 63 Issue 9 (2006) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

Intraseasonal variability in the West African monsoon is documented by using daily gridded
datasets of rainfall and convection, and reanalyzed atmospheric fields, over the period 1968 …

Agriculture in the Sudano-Sahelian zone is heavily dependent on the seasonal
characteristics of rainfall. This study seeks to characterise components of regional climatic …

The intraseasonal variability over Africa during northern summer was analyzed, using 25
years of NCEP–NCAR reanalysis and satellite data. The dominant pattern of variability was …

Regional climate model (RCM) is a valuable scientific tool to address the mechanisms of
regional atmospheric systems such as the West African monsoon (WAM). This study aims to …

La mousson ouest-africaine rythme le calendrier agricole de toute l'Afrique de l'Ouest; celui-
ci est de plus en plus court au fur et à mesure que l'on se déplace vers le Nord, comme la …