Reposted by Dr. Kelly Núñez Ocasio
An EOR paper in JAS reviews research on African Easterly Waves—the thunderstorm complexes that seed Atlantic tropical cyclones—synthesizing more than 80 years of observational, theoretical, and modeling advances into a single resource for the weather and climate community: bit.ly/4dat03U
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A Review of African Easterly Waves
by Kelly M. Núñez Ocasio et al.1 African Easterly Waves (AEWs) are synoptic-scale, westward-propagating atmospheric disturbances that form over sub-Saharan Africa during boreal summer.