2011: Intermittent African easterly wave activity in a dry atmospheric model: Influence of the extratropics

• Main Authors: Stephanie Leroux, Nicholas M. J. Hall, George N. Kiladis
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Leroux; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.636.110; http://hal-ups-tlse.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/79/87/34/PDF/jcli-d-11-00049_2E1.pdf

A dynamical model is constructed of the northern summertime global circulation, maintained by empiri-cally derived forcing, based on the same dynamical code that has recently been used to study African easterly waves (AEWs) as convectively triggered perturbations (Thorncroft et al.; Leroux and Hall)...