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Dry-lines in Southern Africa: Rediscovering the Congo Air Boundary

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Projected rainfall decline in southern Africa is likely to be highly sensitive to subtleties in the local atmospheric circulation. In an effort to understand the regional circulation complexities, a novel algorithm is developed to identify the Congo Air Boundary (CAB) in ERA-5, a high resolution reanalysis dataset. The CAB, a forgotten feature of the circulation, is defined in the Austral spring and early summer, using surface humidity gradients and near-surface wind convergence lines, and is...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0437.1

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University of Oxford
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SSD
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SOGE
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University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SOGE
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American Meteorological Society Publisher's website
Journal:
Journal of Climate Journal website
Volume:
32
Issue:
23
Pages:
8223-8242
Publication date:
2019-09-09
Acceptance date:
2019-08-28
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ISSN:
0894-8755
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English
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pubs:1048491
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uuid:8883c63d-61c6-49a7-9648-884ad20db3d2
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pubs:1048491
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1048491
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2019-09-02

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