TY - JOUR
T1 - A meteorological dataset of the West African monsoon during the 2016 DACCIWA campaign
AU - Kohler, Martin
AU - Bessardon, Geoffrey
AU - Brooks, Barbara
AU - Kalthoff, Norbert
AU - Lohou, Fabienne
AU - Adler, Bianca
AU - Olawale Jegede, Oluwagbemiga
AU - Altstädter, Barbara
AU - Amekudzi, Leonard Kofitse
AU - Aryee, Jeffrey Nii Armah
AU - Atiah, Winifred Ayinpogbilla
AU - Ayoola, Muritala
AU - Babić, Karmen
AU - Bärfuss, Konrad
AU - Bezombes, Yannick
AU - Bret, Guillaume
AU - Brilouet, Pierre Etienne
AU - Cayle-Aethelhard, Fred
AU - Danuor, Sylvester
AU - Delon, Claire
AU - Derrien, Solene
AU - Dione, Cheikh
AU - Durand, Pierre
AU - Fosu-Amankwah, Kwabena
AU - Gabella, Omar
AU - Groves, James
AU - Handwerker, Jan
AU - Jambert, Corinne
AU - Kunka, Norbert
AU - Lampert, Astrid
AU - Leclercq, Jérémy
AU - Lothon, Marie
AU - Medina, Patrice
AU - Miere, Arnaud
AU - Pätzold, Falk
AU - Pedruzo-Bagazgoitia, Xabier
AU - Reinares Martínez, Irene
AU - Sharpe, Steven
AU - Smith, Victoria
AU - Wieser, Andreas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/12/1
Y1 - 2022/12/1
N2 - As part of the Dynamics-Aerosol-Chemistry-Cloud Interactions in West Africa (DACCIWA) project, extensive in-situ measurements of the southern West African atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) have been performed at three supersites Kumasi (Ghana), Savè (Benin) and Ile-Ife (Nigeria) during the 2016 monsoon period (June and July). The measurements were designed to provide data for advancing our understanding of the relevant processes governing the formation, persistence and dissolution of nocturnal low-level stratus clouds and their influence on the daytime ABL in southern West Africa. An extensive low-level cloud deck often forms during the night and persists long into the following day strongly influencing the ABL diurnal cycle. Although the clouds are of a high significance for the regional climate, the dearth of observations in this region has hindered process understanding. Here, an overview of the measurements ranging from near-surface observations, cloud characteristics, aerosol and precipitation to the dynamics and thermodynamics in the ABL and above, and data processing is given. So-far achieved scientific findings, based on the dataset analyses, are briefly overviewed.
AB - As part of the Dynamics-Aerosol-Chemistry-Cloud Interactions in West Africa (DACCIWA) project, extensive in-situ measurements of the southern West African atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) have been performed at three supersites Kumasi (Ghana), Savè (Benin) and Ile-Ife (Nigeria) during the 2016 monsoon period (June and July). The measurements were designed to provide data for advancing our understanding of the relevant processes governing the formation, persistence and dissolution of nocturnal low-level stratus clouds and their influence on the daytime ABL in southern West Africa. An extensive low-level cloud deck often forms during the night and persists long into the following day strongly influencing the ABL diurnal cycle. Although the clouds are of a high significance for the regional climate, the dearth of observations in this region has hindered process understanding. Here, an overview of the measurements ranging from near-surface observations, cloud characteristics, aerosol and precipitation to the dynamics and thermodynamics in the ABL and above, and data processing is given. So-far achieved scientific findings, based on the dataset analyses, are briefly overviewed.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85128314620
U2 - 10.1038/s41597-022-01277-7
DO - 10.1038/s41597-022-01277-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 35422487
AN - SCOPUS:85128314620
SN - 2052-4463
VL - 9
JO - Scientific Data
JF - Scientific Data
IS - 1
M1 - 174
ER -
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