This tropical weather systems group is concerned with enhancing our understanding of weather systems in the tropics ranging from the mesoscale to the continental scale.
Research combines observations with a hierarchy of numerical models of varying complexity.
The group works towards increasing our understanding of the processes involved in the evolution of the West African monsoon with special emphasis on interannual variability of rainfall, scale interactions and tropical land-based convection. Projects include seasonal prediction of the West African monsoon, maintenance of the African Easterly Jet and moist easterly wave life-cycles. The group is also actively working on several aspects of the life-cycle of tropical cyclones and hurricanes in the Atlantic including their genesis from African easterly waves, their interannual variability and the transition of these systems into midlatititude systems that can affect Europe. Last updated on April 20th, 1999. This page is maintained by Ioannis Pytharoulis .