This study used a two-dimensional coupled land-atmosphere (cloud resolving) model to investigate the influence of land cover on the water budgets of convective lines in West Africa. Study simulations used the same initial sounding and one of three different land covers: a sparsely vegetated semidesert, a grassy savanna, and a dense evergreen broadleaf forest. All simulations began at midnight and ran for 24 h to capture a full diurnal cycle. During the morning, the forest had the highest latent heat flux, the shallowest, moistest, slowest growing boundary layer, and more convective available potential energy than the savanna and semidesert. Although the savanna and forest environments produced virtually the same total rainfall mass (semides...
In West Africa, food security and economy are based on agricultural production that is strongly depe...
Rainfall exerts a strong control on the seasonal evolution of vegetation across West Africa. In turn...
The West African monsoon interacts strongly with the land surface, yet knowledge of these interactio...
This study used a two-dimensional coupled land–atmosphere (cloud resolving) model to investigate the...
Planned changes to land use in West Africa have been proposed to both combat desertification and to ...
This study assessed the sensitivity of West African climate to varying vegetation fractions. The ass...
The West African monsoon (WAM) rainfall is characterized by a strong temporal and spatial variabilit...
The impact of high resolution modern vegetation cover on the West African climate is examined using ...
To understand surface energy exchange processes over the semiarid regions in West Africa, numerical ...
The north-south gradient in surface temperature and rainfall in West Africa leads to the summertime ...
West Africa is a hot spot region for land–atmosphere coupling where atmospheric conditions and conve...
We used the Abdu Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Regional Climate Model ve...
The climate impacts of leaf area index (LAI) and fractional vegetation cover (FVC) on the West Afric...
In West Africa, food security and economy are based on agricultural production that is strongly depe...
Rainfall exerts a strong control on the seasonal evolution of vegetation across West Africa. In turn...
The West African monsoon interacts strongly with the land surface, yet knowledge of these interactio...
This study used a two-dimensional coupled land–atmosphere (cloud resolving) model to investigate the...
Planned changes to land use in West Africa have been proposed to both combat desertification and to ...
This study assessed the sensitivity of West African climate to varying vegetation fractions. The ass...
The West African monsoon (WAM) rainfall is characterized by a strong temporal and spatial variabilit...
The impact of high resolution modern vegetation cover on the West African climate is examined using ...
To understand surface energy exchange processes over the semiarid regions in West Africa, numerical ...
The north-south gradient in surface temperature and rainfall in West Africa leads to the summertime ...
West Africa is a hot spot region for land–atmosphere coupling where atmospheric conditions and conve...
We used the Abdu Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Regional Climate Model ve...
The climate impacts of leaf area index (LAI) and fractional vegetation cover (FVC) on the West Afric...
In West Africa, food security and economy are based on agricultural production that is strongly depe...
Rainfall exerts a strong control on the seasonal evolution of vegetation across West Africa. In turn...
The West African monsoon interacts strongly with the land surface, yet knowledge of these interactio...