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The Saharan Air Layer And The Fate Of African Easterly Waves: NASA’s AMMA...

Zipser, E., C. Twohy, S. Tsay, K. L. Thornhill, S. Tanelli, R. Ross, T. N. Krishnamurti, Q. Ji, G. Jenkins, S. Ismail, N. C. Hsu, R. E. Hood, G. Heymsfield, A. Heymsfield, J. B. Halverson, M. Goodman, R. Ferrare, J. Dunion, M. Douglas, R. Cifelli, G. Chen, E. Browell, and B. E. Anderson (2009), The Saharan Air Layer And The Fate Of African Easterly Waves: NASA’s AMMA Field Study of Tropical Cyclogenesis, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 1137-1156, doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2728.1.
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Atmospheric Dynamics and Precipitation Program (ADP)
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