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Understanding the summertime diurnal cycle of precipitation over sub-Saharan West Africa: regions with daytime rainfall peaks in the absence of significant topographic features
Convection-permitting regional model output is analyzed to better understand the diurnal cycle of rainfall during the height of the West African...
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Moisture sources associated with heavy rainfall over the Limpopo River Basin, southern Africa
Moisture sources and pathways over the Limpopo River Basin (LRB) in southern Africa were identified using the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian...
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Predictability of the early winter Arctic oscillation from autumn Eurasian snowcover in subseasonal forecast models
The response of the early winter Northern Hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex and tropospheric Arctic Oscillation to anomalous autumn snow cover in...
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Lake Martin, Louisiana sediments as a record of geomorphology, paleoenvironment, and human activities
There are relatively few lake sediment records from the southeastern United States that span sufficient time to characterize the environment prior to...
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Evaluation of the Korea Meteorological Administration Advanced Community Earth-System model (K-ACE)
Scientific community has been elaborating to better understand the observed climate and its variations, and to improve the capability for predicting...
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Blocking, gap flow and mountain wave interaction along the coastal escarpment of South Africa
A fatal light aircraft crash occurred in the complex mountainous terrain along the coast of the South African Southern Cape in December 2015. An...
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Dynamical Processes in the Arctic Atmosphere
The scales of dynamical processes in the Arctic atmosphere range from turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) via interactive mesoscale...
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Circulations Associated with Variations in Boreal Spring Rainfall over Kenya
The decline in March–May (MAM) ‘boreal spring’ rainfall is of great concern to Kenya’s agricultural sector. This study examines factors influencing...
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Mechanisms behind early winter rainfall variability in the southwestern Cape, South Africa
The southwest region of South Africa is the only part of southern Africa that predominantly receives its total annual rainfall during the austral...
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Examination of a relationship between atmospheric blocking and seismic events in the Middle East using a new seismo-climatic index
This study statistically examines the role of atmospheric blocking as a precursor of major seismic events. Atmospheric blocking archive and...
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A global climatology of surface anticyclones, their variability, associated drivers and long-term trends
A global climatology of anticyclones identified at mean sea level pressure is presented based on multiple reanalyses over the period 1960–2016,...
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Temperature trends for coastal and adjacent higher lying interior regions of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Temperature trends for KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa, are investigated for the period 1930–2015, with the intention to test whether interior...
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Intraseasonal to Interannual Climate Variability and Prediction
This chapter outlines a set of topics essential to become aware of the science, methods, and procedures for operational prediction in the...
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Dynamical analysis of extreme precipitation in the US northeast based on large-scale meteorological patterns
Previous work has identified six large-scale meteorological patterns (LSMPs) of dynamic tropopause height associated with extreme precipitation over...
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An evaluation and implementation of the regional coupled ice-ocean model of the Baltic Sea
A three-dimensional, regional coupled ice-ocean model based on the open-source Community Earth System Model has been developed and implemented for...
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Tropical storm Chedza and associated floods over south-eastern Africa
Widespread flooding over parts of Malawi, Mozambique, and Madagascar occurred in January 2015. An impact assessment by the World Bank indicated huge...
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Exploring a possible connection between U.S. tornado activity and Arctic sea ice
The significant losses in Arctic sea ice over the past few decades appear to have been accompanied by changes in global-scale and regional-scale...
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USLE-based assessment of soil erosion by water in the watershed upstream Tessaoute (Central High Atlas, Morocco)
This study involves a loss of soil modeling in the catchment basin of Tessaoute upstream (Central High Atlas, Morocco), the integration of the...
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Studying the Synoptic Wildfire Climatology in Greece. Implications to Wildfire Management
In this work, the wildfire synoptic climatology in Greece is studied through the COST-733 classification schemes. Specifically, wildfires are linked...