The AMMA (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis)
project was organized in recent years with the main goal of obtaining a better understanding
of the intra-seasonal and interannual variability of the west-African monsoon (WAM).
Land-atmosphere coupling is theorized to be
significant in this region, therefore a high priority goal of AMMA
is therefore to better understand and model the influence of the spatio-temporal variability of surface processes on the
atmospheric circulation patterns and the regional water cycle.
ALMIP Phase 2 deals with the local to meso scales.
Land surface, vegetation and hydrological models will participate and
be evaluated and inter-compared in order to identify key processes
which are not well modelled over this region, and to offer guidelines for
future model development for all 3 classes of models.
Participants are to perform the simulations in 2012.
Please
contact us
if you would like to participate by either contributing simulations
or participating in model output analysis.
ALMIP2 is a
Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
(GEWEX)
Global Land Atmosphere System Study
(GLASS)
Project.
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