West Africa is known to be particularly vulnerable to climate change due to high climate
variability, high reliance on rain-fed agriculture, and limited economic and institutional …

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 …

The arrival of the summer monsoon over West Africa has been documented by using daily
gridded rainfall data and NCEP–NCAR reanalyses during the period 1968–90, and OLR …

North Africa is the world's largest source of dust, a large part of which is transported across
the Atlantic to the Caribbean and beyond where it can impact radiation and clouds. Many …

Automatic tracking of vorticity centers in European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
Forecasts analyses has been used to develop a 20-yr climatology of African easterly wave …

This article presents an overview of the land ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone) over
West Africa, based on analysis of NCAR–NCEP Reanalysis data. The picture that emerges …

The present assessment of the West African monsoon in the models of the Coupled Model
Intercomparison Project (CMIP) phase 5 (CMIP5) indicates little evolution since the third …

Abstract The West African heat low (WAHL), a region of high surface temperatures and low
surface pressures, is a key element of the West African monsoon system. In this study, we …

This study examines selected dynamical factors associated with wet and dry years in the
West African Sahel. The approach is to evaluate the temperature, wind, and moisture fields …

This paper examines the mean annual cycle of rainfall and general circulation features over
West Africa and central Africa for 1958–97. Rainfall is examined using a 1400-station …