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The Saharan Air Layer and the Fate of African Easterly Waves—NASA's AMMA Field Study of Tropical Cyclogenesis

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Zipser, Edward J., Twohy, Cynthia, Tsay, Si-Chee, Thornhill, K. Lee, Tanelli, Simone, Ross, Robert, Krishnamurti, T. N., Ji, Q., Jenkins, Gregory, Ismail, Syed, Hsu, N. Christina, Hood, Robbie, Heymsfield, Gerald M., Heymsfield, Andrew, Halverson, Jeffrey, Goodman, H. Michael, Ferrare, Richard, Dunion, Jason P., Douglas, Michael, Cifelli, Robert, Chen, Gao, Browell, Edward V., and Anderson, Bruce

Abstract:

In 2006, NASA led a field campaign to investigate the factors that control the fate of African easterly waves (AEWs) moving westward into the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Aircraft and surface-based equipment were based on Cape Verde's islands, helping to fill some of the data void between Africa and the Caribbean....

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