The AMMA field campaigns: Accomplishments and lessons learned

Thierry Lebel; Douglas J. Parker; Cyrille Flamant; Hartmut Höller; Jan Polcher; Jean Luc Redelsperger; Chris Thorncroft; Olivier Bock; Bernard Bourles; Sylvie Galle; Béatrice Marticorena; Eric Mougin; Christophe Peugeot; Bernard Cappelaere; Luc Descroix; Arona Diedhiou; Amadou Gaye; Jean Philippe Lafore

doi:10.1002/asl.323

The AMMA field campaigns: Accomplishments and lessons learned

Thierry Lebel
, Douglas J. Parker
, Cyrille Flamant
, Hartmut Höller
, Jan Polcher
, Jean Luc Redelsperger
, Chris Thorncroft
, Olivier Bock
, Bernard Bourles
, Sylvie Galle
, Béatrice Marticorena
, Eric Mougin
, Christophe Peugeot
, Bernard Cappelaere
, Luc Descroix
, Arona Diedhiou
, Amadou Gaye
, Jean Philippe Lafore

GPM2-INPG
University of Leeds
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
DLR
Météo-France/CNRS
State University of New York Albany
IGN-LAREG
CNRS/CNES/IRD/OMP
LMTG/CNRS
Université de Montpellier
Université Cheikh Anta DIOP

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Abstract

The AMMA (African Monsoon Multidiscplinary Analysis) field programme aimed at documenting the West African Monsoon (WAM) climate system, in all its geophysical components. It also includes an important socio-economic component. Encompassing a wide range of spatial and time scales, AMMA is one of the most ambitious such programmes ever set up. While the key accomplishments of AMMA are summarised in this paper, a few lessons of broad interest are also drawn both as a tribute to the extraordinary efforts made by a community of several hundreds of people and as possible guidelines for ensuring a long lasting future to integrated climate and environmental studies in West Africa.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	123-128
Number of pages	6
Journal	Atmospheric Science Letters
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.323
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2011

Keywords

Capacity building
Field campaigns
Instrument deployment
Long-term monitoring
West Africa

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Lebel, T., Parker, D. J., Flamant, C., Höller, H., Polcher, J., Redelsperger, J. L., Thorncroft, C., Bock, O., Bourles, B., Galle, S., Marticorena, B., Mougin, E., Peugeot, C., Cappelaere, B., Descroix, L., Diedhiou, A., Gaye, A., & Lafore, J. P. (2011). The AMMA field campaigns: Accomplishments and lessons learned. Atmospheric Science Letters, 12(1), 123-128. https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.323

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