Air Weather Service (AWS) Climatic Briefs: Africa.

• Other Authors: AIR FORCE ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS CENTER SCOTT AFB IL
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1982
• Subjects: Meteorology; *METEOROLOGY; *WEATHER; *CLIMATE; *AFRICA; TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION; DEW POINT; VAPOR PRESSURE; THUNDERSTORMS; FOG; CLOUD COVER; EGYPT; LIBYA; MOROCCO; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; TABLES(DATA); Climatic briefs; Surface wind; Relative humidity; Pressure altitude; Flying weather; Greenland; Antarc*; Antarctica; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA118452; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA118452

The AWS Climatic Briefs provide summarized monthly and annual climatic data for specific locations. Different data summaries provide the information for different geographical areas. These areas are: North America (including Greenland and Bermuda); Latin America (including Mexico, West Indies, and dependent islands): Europe (including North Atlantic islands); USSR and Mongolian Peoples Republic; Peoples Republic of China (no Climatic Briefs at this time); Asia (Turkey and Cyprus to Indonesia and Japan); Africa (including Malagasy); and Antarctica, Australia, and Oceania. Meteorological elements included are: temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, vapor pressure, dew point, pressure altitude, surface wind, mean cloud cover, thunderstorm and fog days, flying weather, and typhoon and hurricane data. Supersedes Rept. no. USAFETAC/DS-79/093, AD-A082 097.