An Intercomparison of Simulated Rainfall and Evapotranspiration Associated with a Mesoscale Convective System over West Africa

Francoise Guichard (1) , Nicole Asencio (1) , Christophe Peugeot (2) , Olivier Bock (3) , Jean-Luc Redelsperger (1) , Xuefeng Cui (4) , Matthew Garvert (5) , Benjamin Lamptey (6) , Emiliano Orlandi (7) , Julia Sander (8) , Federico Fierli (9) , Miguel Angel Gaertner (5) , Sarah Jones (8) , Jean-Philippe Lafore (1) , Andrew Morse (4) , Mathieu Nuret (1) , Aaron Boone (1) , Gianpaolo Balsamo (10) , Patricia de Rosnay (10) , Bertrand Decharme (1) , Philip Harris (11) , J.-C. Bergès (12)

1 CNRM - Centre national de recherches météorologiques
2 HSM - Hydrosciences Montpellier
3 LAREG - LAboratoire de Recherche en Géodésie
4 University of Liverpool
5 UCLM - Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha = University of Castilla-La Mancha
6 NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research [Boulder]
7 UniFE - Università degli Studi di Ferrara = University of Ferrara
8 IMK - Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research
9 ISAC - Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima
10 ECMWF - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
11 CEH - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
12 PRODIG (UMR_8586 / UMR_D_215 / UM_115) - Pôle de recherche pour l'organisation et la diffusion de l'information géographique

Domaines: Océan, Atmosphère; Interfaces continentales, environnement

Francoise Guichard, Nicole Asencio, Christophe Peugeot, Olivier Bock, Jean-Luc Redelsperger, et al.. An Intercomparison of Simulated Rainfall and Evapotranspiration Associated with a Mesoscale Convective System over West Africa. Weather and Forecasting, 2010, 25 (1), pp.37 - 60. ⟨10.1175/2009WAF2222250.1⟩. ⟨hal-01875462⟩