Gosset M, Viarre J, Quantin G, Alcoba M. 2013. Evaluation of several rainfall products used for hydrological applications over West Africa using two high-resolution gauge networks. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. doi:10.1002/qj.2130
2012
Descroix L., J.-P. Laurent, M. Vauclin, O. Amogu, S. Boubkraoui, B. Ibrahim, S. Galle, B. Cappelaere, S. Bousquet, I. Mamadou, E. Le Breton, T. Lebel, G. Quantin, D. Ramier, N. Boulain, 2012. Experimental evidence of deep infiltration under sandy flats and gullies in the Sahel. J. Hydrol. 424-425 (2012) 1-15. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.11.019
Descroix, L., Genthon, P., Amogu, O., Rajot, J.-L., Sighomnou, D., et Vauclin, M., 2012. Change in Sahelian Rivers hydrograph: The case of recent red floods of the Niger River in the Niamey region. Global and Planetary Change, 98-99 (0), 18-30.
Fatras C., Frappart F., Mougin E., Grippa M., Hiernaux P., 2012. Estimating surface soil moisture over Sahel using ENVISAT radar altimetry. Remote Sens. Environ., 123, 496-507.
Frison P.L., Mercier G., Faye G., Mougin E., Hiernaux P., Lardeux C., Rudant J.P., 2012. Analysis of L and C-bands SAR images time series over a Sahelian area. Accepted for publication in IEEE Geosci. Rem. Sens. Lett.
Garcia M., Sandholt I., Ceccato P., Ridler M., Mougin E., Kergoat L., Morillas L., Timouk F., Fensholt R., Domingo F., 2012. Assessing biophysical constraints to estimate evapotranspiration in water limited ecosystems from in-situ and satellite data. Accepted for publication in Remote Sens. Environ.
Guyot A., Cohard J-M., Anquetin S. and Galle S., 2012. Long-term observations of turbulent fluxes over heterogeneous vegetation using scintillometry and additional observations: A contribution to AMMA under Sudano-Sahelian climate. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 154-155: 84-98. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.10.008
Hinderer J., J. Pfeffer, M. Boucher, S. Nahmani, C. De Linage, J.-P. Boy,P. Genthon, L. Seguis, G. Favreau, O. Bock, M. Descloitres, F. Masson, Y. Rogister, F. Littel, B. Luck, M. Calvo, B. Cappelaere, C. Peugeot, R. Bayer, C. Champollion, P. Collard, N. Le Moigne, M. Diament, S. Deroussi, O. de Viron, R. Biancale, J.-M. Lemoine, P. Gegout, S. Galle, J.-P. Laurent, Y. Nazoumou, A. Zannou (2012). Land water storage changes from ground and space geodesy: first results from the GHYRAF (Gravity and Hydrology in Africa) experiment. Pure and Applied Geophysics 169(8): 1391-410.
Issoufou B.H., Delzon S., Laurent J-P., Saâdou M., Mahamane A., Cappelaere B., Demarty J., Oï M., Rambal S., Seghieri J. 2012 sous presse. Change in water loss regulation after canopy clearcut of a dominant shrub in Sahelian agrosystems, Guiera senegalensis J. F. Gmel. Trees, Structure and Function.
Kirstetter P-E, Viltard N, Gosset M. 2012. An error model for instantaneous satellite rainfall estimates: evaluation of BRAIN-TMI over West Africa. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. doi:10.1002/qj.1964
Lesnoff M., Corniaux C., Hiernaux P., 2012. Sensitivity of the recovery dynamics of a cattle population following drought in the Sahel region. Ecological Modelling 232: 28-39, doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.02.018
Mangiarotti S., Mazzega P., Hiernaux P., Mougin E., 2012, Assessing the predictability of the Vegetation Cycles over the semi-arid region of Gourma (Mali) from forecasts of the AVHRR-NDVI signal. Remote Sens. Environ., 123, 246-257.
Panthou G., Vischel T., Lebel T., Blanchet J., Quantin G., Ali A., 2012. Extreme rainfall in West Africa: A regional modeling. Water Resources Research, 4848, W08501. doi:10.1029/2012WR012052
Pierre C., Bergametti G., Marticorena B., Mougin E., Bouet C., Schmechtig C., 2012. Impact of vegetation and soil moisture seasonal dynamics on dust emissions over the Sahelian belt in West Africa. J. Geophys. Res., 117, D06115.
Ridler M.A., Sandholt I., Butts M., Lerer S., Mougin E., Timouk F., Kergoat L., Madsen H., 2012. Calibrating a soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer model with remote sensing estimates of surface temperature and surface soil moisture in a semi-arid environment. J. Hydrol., 436-437, 1-12.
Seghieri J., Carreau J., Boulain N., De Rosnay P., Arjounin M., Timouk F., 2012. Is water availability really the main environmental factor controlling the phenology of woody vegetation in the central Sahel?. Plant Ecol, 213 , 861-870. doi:10.1007/s11258-012-0048-y
Tanguy M., Baille A., González-Real M.M., Lloyd C., Cappelaere B., Kergoat L., Cohard J.M. (2012). A new parameterisation scheme of ground heat flux for land surface flux retrieval from remote sensing information. Journal of Hydrology, 454-455: 113-22.
Tomer S. K., M. Sekhar, M. S. Mohan Kumar, E. Mougin, S. Bandyopadhyay, Shiv Mohan, 2012. Estimation of surface soil moisture using SAR: a comparison between linear regression and copulas. Accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing.
Verhoef, A., C. Ottlé, B. Cappelaere, T. Murray, S. Saux Picart, A. Zribi, F. Maignan, N. Boulain, J. Demarty, and D. Ramier, 2012. Spatio-temporal surface soil heat flux estimates from satellite data; results for the AMMA experiment, Fakara supersite, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 154-155, 55-66.
2011
Baup F., Mougin E., de Rosnay P., Hiernaux P., Frappart F., Frison P.L., Zribi M., Viarre J., 2011, Mapping surface soil moisture over the Gourma mesoscale site (Mali) by using ENVISAT-ASAR data. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 15, 603-616.
Boucher M., Favreau G., Nazoumou Y. Cappelaere B., Massuel S., Legchenko A., 2011 Constraining groundwater modeling with magnetic resonance soundings. Ground Water.
Boucher, M.; S., Costabel; U., Yaramanci, 2011. The detectability of water by NMR considering the instrumental dead time - A laboratory analysis of unconsolidated materials. Near Surface Geophysics, 9 (2): 145-153. doi:10.3997/1873-0604.2010056
Crow, W. T.; van den Berg, M. J.; Huffman, G. J.; Pellarin, T. , 2011 : Correcting rainfall using satellite-based surface soil moisture retrievals: The Soil Moisture Analysis Rainfall Tool (SMART). Water Resources Research, 47.
Descloitres, M., L. Séguis, A. Legchenko, M. Wubda, A. Guyot and J.M. Cohard, 2011. The contribution of MRS and resistivity methods to the interpretation of actual evapo-transpiration measurements : a case study in metamorphic context in north Bénin. Near Surface Geophysics, 9 (2):, 187-200, doi:10.3997/1873-0604.2011003
Descroix, L., M. Esteves, K. Souley Yéro, J.-L. Rajot, M. Malam Abdou, S. Boubkraoui, J.-M. Lapetite, N. Dessay, I. Zin, O. Amogu, A. Bachir, I. Bouzou Moussa, E., Le Breton, and I. Mamadou , 2011 : Runoff evolution according to land use change in a small Sahelian catchment. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 8, 1569-1607.
Grippa M., L. Kergoat,F. Frappart,Q. Araud,A. Boone,P. De Rosnay,J.-M. Lemoine, S. Gascoin, G. Balsamo, C. Ottlé, B. Decharme, S.Saux-Picart and G. Ramillien, 2011. « Land water storage changes over West Africa estimated by GRACE and land surface models ». Wat. Res. Res 47, W05549.
Hein L., de Ridder N., Hiernaux P., Leemans R., de Wit A., Schaepman M., 2011, Desertification in the Sahel: towards better accounting for ecosystem dynamics in the interpretation of remote sensing images. J.of Arid Envir.,75: 1164-1172
Kergoat L., Grippa M., Baille A., Eymard L., Lacaze R., Mougin E., Ottlé C., Pellarin Th., Polcher J., de Rosnay P., Roujean J.-L., Sandholt I., Taylor C.M., Zin I., Zribi M., 2011. Remote sensing of the land surface during the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA), Atmospheric Science Letters, 12 (1) : 129-134, doi:10.1002/asl.325
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, doi:10.1002/asl.323
Legchenko A., M. Descloitres, C. Vincent, H. Guyard, S. Garambois, K. Chalikakis and M. Ezersky, 2011. Three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging for groundwater. New Journal of Physics, 13, 025022, doi:10.1088/1367-2630/13/2/025022
Massuel, S., B. Cappelaere, G. Favreau, C. Leduc, T. Lebel, and T. Vischel, 2011. Integrated surface-groundwater modelling in the context of increasing water reserves of a Sahelian aquifer, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 56(7), 1242-1264.
Paeth, H, Hall, NMJ, Gaertner, MA, Alonso, MD, Moumouni, S, Polcher, J, Ruti, PM, Fink, AH, Gosset, M, Lebel, T, Gaye, AT, Rowell, DP, Moufouma-Okia, W, Jacob, D, Rockel, B, Rummukainen, M, 2011. Progress in regional downscaling of west African precipitation . Atmospheric Science Letters, 12 (1) : 75-82.
Peugeot C., F. Guichard, O. Bock, D. Bouniol, M. Chong, A. Boone, B. Cappelaere, M. Gosset, L. Besson, Y. Lemaître L. Séguis, A. Zannou, S. Galle, J.-L. Redelsperger, 2011. Meso-scale water cycle within the West African Monsoon. Atmospheric Science Letters, 12 (1) : 45-50, doi:10.1002/asl.309
Pfeffer, J., Boucher, M., Hinderer, J., Favreau, G., Boy, J.-P., de Linage, C.,Cappelaere, B., Luck, B., Oi, M. and Le Moigne, N.,2011. Local and global hydrological contributions to time-variable gravity in Southwest Niger. Geophysical Journal International, 184: 661-672, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04894.x
Pierre C., Bergametti G., Marticorena B., Mougin E., Lebel T. and Ali A., 2011. Pluriannual comparisons of satellite based rainfall products over the Sahelian belt for seasonal vegetation modelling. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D18201.
Polcher, J., Parker, DJ, Gaye, A., Diedhiou, A., Eymard, L., Fierli, F., Genesio, L., Holler, H., Janicot, S., Lafore, JP., Karambiri, H., Lebel, T., Redelsperger, JL., Reeves, CE., Ruti, P., Sandholt, I., Thorncroft, C, 2011. AMMA's contribution to the evolution of prediction and decision-making systems for West Africa. Atmospheric Science Letters, 12 (1) : 2-6.
Séguis L., Boulain N., Cappelaere B., Cohard J-M., Favreau G., Galle S., Guyot A., Hiernaux P., Mougin E., Peugeot C., Ramier D., Seghieri J., Timouk F., Demarez V., Demarty J., Descroix L., Descloitres M., Grippa M., Guichard F., Kamagaté B., Kergoat L., Lebel T., Le Dantec V., Le Lay M., Massuel S. and Trichon V., 2011. Contrasted land surface processes along the West African rainfall gradient. Atmospheric Science Letters, 12 (1) : 31-37, doi:10.1002/asl.327
Séguis M., Kamagaté B., Favreau G., Descloitres M., Seidel J.L., Galle S., Peugeot C., Gosset M., Le Barbé L., Malinur F., Van Exter S., Arjounin M., Wubda M., 2011. Origins of streamflow in a crystalline basement catchment in the sub-humid Soudanian zone : the Donga basin (Benin, West Africa). Inter annual variability of water budget. Journal of Hydrology, 402: 1-13, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.01.054
Sjöström, M., J. Ardö, A. Arneth, N. Boulain, B. Cappelaere, L. Eklundh, A. de Grandcourt, W. L. Kutsch, L. Merbold, Y. Nouvellon, R. J. Scholes, P. Schubert, J. Seaquist, and E. M. Veenendaal, 2011. Exploring the potential of MODIS EVI for modeling gross primary production across African ecosystems, Remote Sensing of Environment, 115(4), 1081-1089.
Taylor, C. M.; Parker, D.J.; Kalthoff, N.; Gaertner, M.A.; Philippon, N.; Bastin, S.; Harris, P.P.; Boone, A.; Guichard, F.; Agusti-Panareda, A.; Baldi, M.; Cerlini, P.; Descroix, L.; Douville, H.; Flamant, C.; Grandpeix, J.-Y.; Polcher, J., 2011. New Perspectives on Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks from the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA).Atmospheric Science Letter, 12 (1) : 38-44.
Uijlenhoet, R., J. M. Cohard and M. Gosset. Path-average Rainfall Estimation From Optical Extinction Measurements Using a Large-aperture Scintillometer. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi:10.1175/2011jhm1350.1, in press.
Vischel T., Quantin G., Lebel T., Viarre J., Gosset M., Cazenave, F., Panthou, G. Generation of high resolution rainfields in West Africa: evaluation of dynamical interpolation methods. Journal of Hydrometeorology 12, no. 6 (December 2011): 1465-1482, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-10-05015
Vouillamoz, J.M., Legchenko, A. and Nandagiri, L., 2011. Characterizing aquifers when using magnetic resonance sounding in a heterogeneous geomagnetic field. Near Surface Geophysics, 9, 135-144, doi:10.3997/1873-0604.2010053
2010
Abdou, K.; Parker, D. J.; Brooks, B.; Kalthoff, N.; Lebel, T., 2010. The diurnal cycle of lower boundary-layer wind in the West African monsoon. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 136, 66-76, doi:10.1002/qj.536
Adon M., C. Galy-Lacaux, V. Yoboué, C. Delon, J. P. Lacaux, P. Castera, E. Gardrat, J. Pienaar, H. Al Ourabi, D. Laouali, B. Diop, L. Sigha-Nkamdjou, A. Akpo, J. P. Tathy, F. Lavenu, and E. Mougin, 2010, Long term measurements of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ammonia, nitric acid and ozone in Africa using passive samplers. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 7467-7487.
Amogu, O. , Descroix, L., Souley Yéro, K., Le Breton, E., Mamadou, I., Ali, A., Vischel, T., Bader, J.C., Bouzou Moussa, I., Gauthier, E., Boubkraoui, S., Belleudy, P., 2010. Increasing River Flows in the Sahel?. Water, 2:170-199, doi:10.3390/w2020170
Bain, C.L. D.J. Parker, C.M. Taylor, L. Kergoat, F. Guichard, 2010. Observations of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer Associated with the West African Monsoon, Monthly Weather Review, 138, 3142-3156
Barthe, C., Asencio, N., Lafore, J.P., Chong, M., Campistron, B., & Cazenave, F., 2010. Multi-scale analysis of the 25-27 July 2006 convective period over Niamey: Comparison between Doppler radar observations and simulations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 136, 190-208, doi:10.1002/qj.539
Boone, A., Xue, Y., Poccard-Leclerq, I., Feng, J., de Sales, F. and De Rosnay, P., 2010: Evaluation of the WAMME model surface fluxes using results from the AMMA land-surface model intercomparison project. Climate Dynamics, 35, 127-142. Doi : 10.1007/s00382-009-0653-1
Cairo, F., J. P. Pommereau, K. S. Law, H. Schlager, A. Garnier, F. Fierli, M. Ern, M. Streibe, S. Arabas, S. Borrmann, J. J. Berthelier, C. Blom, T. Christensen, F. D'Amato, G. Di Donfrancesco, T. Deshler, A. Diedhiou, G. Durry, O. Engelsen, F. Goutai, N. R. P. Harris, E. R. T. Kerstel1, S. Khaykin, P. Konopka, A. Kylling, N. Larsen, T. Lebel, et al., 2010. An introduction to the SCOUT-AMMA stratospheric aircraft, balloons and sondes campaign in West Africa, August 2006: rationale and roadmap. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 2237-2256.
Delon C., C. Galy-Lacaux, A. Boone, C. Liousse, D. Serça, M. Adon, B. Diop, A. Akpo, F. Lavenu, E. Mougin, F. Timouk, 2010. Atmospheric Nitrogen budget in Sahelian dry savannas. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 2691-2708.
Diedhiou, A., Camara, M., & Gaye, A., 2010. Overview of synoptic conditions over West Africa and North Atlantic before cyclogenesis. Scientific Research and Essays, 5, 110-118
Diedhiou, A.; Machado, L. A. T.; Laurent, H., 2010. Mean Kinematic Characteristics of Synoptic Easterly Disturbances over the Atlantic. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 27, 483-499.
Gardelle J, P. Hiernaux, L. Kergoat,and M. Grippa, 2010. Less rain, more water in ponds: a remote sensing study of the dynamics of surface waters from 1950 to present in pastoral Sahel (Gourma region, Mali), Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 309-324, doi:10.5194/hess-14-309-2010
Gosset, M., Zahiri, E.P., & Moumouni, S., 2010. Rain drop size distribution variability and impact on X-band polarimetric radar retrieval: Results from the AMMA campaign in Benin. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 136, 243-256, doi:10.1002/qj.556
Gruhier C., de Rosnay P., Hasenhauer S., Holmes T., de Jeu R., Kerr Y., Mougin E., Njoku E., Timouk F., Wagner W., and Zribi M., 2010, Soil moisture active and passive microwave products: intercomparison and evaluation over a Sahelian site. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 141-156.
Kassimou, A., Parker, D.J., Brooks, B., Kalthoff , N. and Lebel, T., 2010. The diurnal cycle of lower boundary layer wind in the West African monsoon. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 136 (S1), 66-76, doi:10.1002/qj.536.
Landais, A.; Risi, C.; Bony, S.; Vimeux, F.; Descroix, L. , 2010 : The triple isotopic composition of oxygen in water as a tracer of relative humidity in the low latitude regions affected by convective activity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 298(1-2), 104:112
Lebel, T.; Parker, D. J.; Flamant, C.; Bourles, B.; Marticorena, B.; Mougin, E.; Peugeot, C.; Diedhiou, A.; Haywood, J. M.; Ngamini, J. B.; Polcher, J.; Redelsperger, J. L.; Thorncroft, C. D., 2010. The AMMA field campaigns: Multiscale and multidisciplinary observations in the West African region. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 136, 8-33, doi:10.1002/qj.486
Legchenko, A.; Vouillamoz, J.M.; Roy, J., 2010. Application of the magnetic resonance sounding method to the investigation of aquifers in the presence of magnetic materials. Geophysics, 75, 91-100.
Mangiarotti S., Mazzega P., Hiernaux P., Mougin E., 2010, The Vegetation Cycle in West Africa from AVHRR-NDVI data: Horizons of Predictability versus Spatial Scales. Remote Sens. Environ., 114, 2036-2047.
Monsivais-Huertero A., Chênerie I., Baup F., Mougin E., 2010, Microwave electromagnetic modelling of Sahelian-grassland". International Journal of Remote Sensing, 31 (7), 1915-1942
Pellarin, T.; Tran, T.; Laurent, J. P.; Vischel, T., 2010. Soil moisture mapping over West Africa. Houille Blanche-Revue Internationale De L Eau, 114-119.
Risi, C., Bony, S., Vimeux, F., Chong, M., & Descroix, L., 2010. Evolution of the stable water isotopic composition of the rain sampled along Sahelian squall lines. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 136, 227-242, doi:10.1002/qj.485
Roca, R., P. Chambon, I. Jobard, P. E. Kirstetter, M. Gosset, and J. C. Berges, 2010: Comparing satellite and surface rainfall products over West Africa at meteorologically relevant scales during the AMMA campaign using error estimates. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology., 49, 715 - 731, doi:10.1175/2009JAMC2318.1
Russell, B.; Williams, E. R.; Gosset, M.; Cazenave, F.; Descroix, L.; Guy, N.; Lebel, T.; Ali, A.; Metayer, F.; Quantin, G., 2010. Radar/rain-gauge comparisons on squall lines in Niamey, Niger for the AMMA. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 136, 289-303, doi:10.1002/qj.548
Wolters, D., C. C. van Heerwaarden, J. V. G. de Arellano, B. Cappelaere, and D. Ramier, 2010. Effects of soil moisture gradients on the path and the intensity of a West African squall line, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 136(653), 2162-2175.
2009
Ali, A. and Lebel, T., 2009. The Sahelian
standardized rainfall index revisited. International Journal of
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Boone A, De Rosnay P, Balsamo G, Beljaars A,
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Boucher, M., Favreau, G.,
Vouillamoz, J.M., Nazoumou, Y. and Legchenko, A, 2009. Estimating specific yield and transmissivity with magnetic resonance sounding in an unconfined sandstone aquifer (Niger), Hydrogeology Journal, 17, 1805-1815, doi:10.1007/s10040-009-0447-x
Boucher, M., Favreau, G.,
Descloitres, M., Vouillamoz, J.M., Massuel, S.,
Nazoumou, Y., Legchenko, A., 2009.
Contribution of geophysical surveys to groundwater modelling in semiarid SW Niger : an overview. Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 341, 800-809.
Boulain, N., Cappelaere, B.,
Ramier, D., Halilou, O., Bil-Assanou, I.H., Seghieri,
J., J., G. & Timouk, F., 2009a. Towards an
understanding of coupled physical and biological processes in
cultivated Sahel - 2. vegetation and carbon dynamics. J.
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case study at the watershed scale with an ecohydrological model. J.
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the cultivated Sahel of South West Niger- Strategy, Implementation
and Site conditions. Journal of Hydrology, 375(1-2): 34-51.
de Rosnay, P., Drusch, M., Boone, A., Balsamo,
G., Decharme, B., Harris, P., Kerr, Y., Pellarin, T.,
Polcher, J. and Wigneron, J.P., 2009. AMMA Land Surface Model
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de Rosnay P., Gruhier C., Timouk F., Baup
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Multi-scale soil moisture measurements over the Gourma meso-scale
site in Mali. Journal of Hydrology, 375(1-2): 241-252.
Decharme B., Ottlé C., Saux Picart S., Boulain N., Cappelaere B., Ramier D., Zribi A. (2009). A new land surface hydrology within the Noah-WRF land-atmosphere mesoscale model applied to semiarid environment: Evaluation over the Dantiandou Kori (Niger). Advances in Meteorology, 731874: 13 p.
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Depraetere, C., Gosset, M., Ploix, S. and
Laurent, H., 2009. The organization and kinematics of
tropical rainfall systems ground tracked at mesoscale with gages:
First results from the campaigns 1999-2006 on the Upper Ouémé
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Descroix, L., Mahé,
G., Lebel, T., Favreau, G.,Galle, S., Gautier,
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Ezzahar, J., Chehbouni, G., Hoedjes, J., Ramier,
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N., Descroix, L., Mougenot, B. and Timouk, F., 2009.
Combining scintillometer measurements and an aggregation scheme to
estimate area-averaged latent heat flux during the AMMA experiment.
Journal of hydrology, 375(1-2): 217-226.
Favreau, G., Cappelaere,
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The impact of a mesoscale convective system cold-pool on the
northward propagation of the inter-tropical discontinuity over
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