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• Arnault, J. and F. Roux, 2009: Case Study of a Developing African Easterly Wave during NAMMA: An Energetic Point of View. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66(10), 2991-3020, doi: 10.1175/2009JAS3009.1.
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• Arnault, J. and F. Roux, 2010: Comparison between Two Case Studies of Developing and Nondeveloping African Easterly Waves during NAMMA and AMMA/SOP-3: Absolute Vertical Vorticity Budget. Monthly Weather Review, 138(4), 1420-1445, doi: 10.1175/2009MWR3120.1.
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• Braun, S. A., 2010: Comments on “Atlantic Tropical Cyclogenetic Processes during SOP-3 NAMMA in the GEOS-5 Global Data Assimilation and Forecast System”. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 67(7), 2402-2410, doi: 10.1175/2010JAS3458.1.
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• Braun, S. A., J. A. Sippel, C.-L. Shie, and R. A. Boller, 2013: The Evolution and Role of the Saharan Air Layer during Hurricane Helene (2006). Monthly Weather Review, 141(12), 4269-4295, doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00045.1.
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• Chen, G., L. D. Ziemba, D. A. Chu, K. L. Thornhill, G. L. Schuster, E. L. Winstead, G. S. Diskin, R. A. Ferrare, S. P. Burton, S. Ismail, S. A. Kooi, A. H. Omar, D. L. Slusher, M. M. Kleb, J. S. Reid, C. H. Twohy, H. Zhang, and B. E. Anderson, 2011: Observations of Saharan dust microphysical and optical properties from the Eastern Atlantic during NAMMA airborne field campaign. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 723–740, doi: 10.5194/acp-11-723-2011.
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• Chiao, S. and G. S. Jenkins, 2010: Numerical Investigations on the Formation of Tropical Storm Debby during NAMMA-06. Weather and Forecasting, 25(3), 866-884, doi: 10.1175/2010WAF2222313.1.
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• Cifelli, R., T. Lang, S. A. Rutledge, N. Guy, E. J. Zipser, J. Zawislak, and R. Holzworth, 2010: Characteristics of an African Easterly Wave Observed during NAMMA. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 67(1), 3-25, doi: 10.1175/2009JAS3141.1.
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• DeLonge, M. S., J. D. Fuentes, S. Chan, P. A. Kucera, E. Joseph, A. T. Gaye, and B. Daouda, 2010: Attributes of mesoscale convective systems at the land‐ocean transition in Senegal during NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses 2006. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D10213, doi: 10.1029/2009JD012518.
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• Elsaesser, G. S., A. D. Del Genio, J. H. Jiang, and M. van Lier-Walqui, 2017: An Improved Convective Ice Parameterization for the NASA GISS Global Climate Model and Impacts on Cloud Ice Simulation. Journal of Climate, 30(1), 317-336, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0346.1.
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• Folmer, M. J., R. W. Pasken, S. Chiao, J. Dunion, and J. Halverson, 2016: Modeling studies on the formation of Hurricane Helene: the impact of GPS dropwindsondes from the NAMMA 2006 field campaign. Meteorol Atmos Phys, 128, 733–750, doi: 10.1007/s00703-016-0452-2.
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• Guy, N., S. A. Rutledge, and R. Cifelli, 2011: Radar characteristics of continental, coastal, and maritime convection observed during AMMA/NAMMA. Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 137, 1241-1256, doi: 10.1002/qj.839.
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• Hansell, R. A., S. C. Tsay, Q. Ji, N. C. Hsu, M. J. Jeong, S. H. Wang, J. S. Reid, K. N. Liou, and S. C. Ou, 2010: An Assessment of the Surface Longwave Direct Radiative Effect of Airborne Saharan Dust during the NAMMA Field Campaign. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 67(4), 1048-1065, doi: 10.1175/2009JAS3257.1.
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• Hansell, R. A., S.‐C. Tsay, N. C. Hsu, Q. Ji, S. W. Bell, B. N. Holben, E. J. Welton, T. L. Roush, W. Zhang, J. Huang, Z. Li, and H. Chen, 2012: An assessment of the surface longwave direct radiative effect of airborne dust in Zhangye, China, during the Asian Monsoon Years field experiment (2008). J. Geophys. Res., 117, D00K39, doi: 10.1029/2011JD017370.
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• Heymsfield, A. and P. Willis, 2014: Cloud Conditions Favoring Secondary Ice Particle Production in Tropical Maritime Convection. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 71(12), 4500-4526, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-14-0093.1.
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• Heymsfield, A. J., Bansemer, A., Heymsfield, G., & Fierro, A. O. (2009). Microphysics of Maritime Tropical Convective Updrafts at Temperatures from -20° to -60°. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66(12), 3530-3562. doi:10.1175/2009jas3107.1
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• Ismail, S., R. A. Ferrare, E. V. Browell, G. Chen, B. Anderson, S. A. Kooi, A. Notari, C. F. Butler, S. Burton, M. Fenn, J. P. Dunion, G. Heymsfield, T. N. Krishnamurti, and M. K. Biswas, 2010: LASE Measurements of Water Vapor, Aerosol, and Cloud Distributions in Saharan Air Layers and Tropical Disturbances. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 67(4), 1026-1047, doi: 10.1175/2009JAS3136.1.
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• Jenkins, G. S. and A. Pratt, 2008: Saharan dust, lightning and tropical cyclones in the eastern tropical Atlantic during NAMMA‐06. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L12804, doi: 10.1029/2008GL033979.
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• Jenkins, G. S., A. S. Pratt, and A. Heymsfield, 2008: Possible linkages between Saharan dust and tropical cyclone rain band invigoration in the eastern Atlantic during NAMMA‐06. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L08815, doi: 10.1029/2008GL034072.
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• Jeong, M.-J., S.‐C. Tsay, Q. Ji, N. C. Hsu, R. A. Hansell, and J. Lee, 2008: Ground‐based measurements of airborne Saharan dust in marine environment during the NAMMA field experiment. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L20805, doi: 10.1029/2008GL035587.
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• Kramar, M. R., Bluestein, H. B., Pazmany, A. L., & Tuttle, J. D. (2005). The "Owl Horn" Radar Signature in Developing Southern Plains Supercells. Monthly Weather Review, 133(9), 2608-2634. doi:10.1175/mwr2992.1
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• Kumar, M., 2011: Field campaign examines hurricane origins. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(32), 314–314, doi: 10.1029/2006EO320004.
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• Lawson, R. P., E. Jensen, D. L. Mitchell, B. Baker, Q. Mo, and B. Pilson, 2010: Microphysical and radiative properties of tropical clouds investigated in TC4 and NAMMA. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00J08, doi: 10.1029/2009JD013017.
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• Mascio, J., G. M. McFarquhar, T.‐L. Hsieh, M. Freer, A. Dooley, and A. J. Heymsfield, 2020: The use of gamma distributions to quantify the dependence of cloud particle size distributions in hurricanes on cloud and environmental conditions. Q J R Meteorol Soc., 146, 2116–2137, doi: 10.1002/qj.3782.
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• Matthee, R. and J. R. Mecikalski, 2013: Geostationary infrared methods for detecting lightning‐producing cumulonimbus clouds. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 6580–6592, doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50485.
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• Matthee, R., J. R. Mecikalski, L. D. Carey, and P. M. Bitzer, 2014: Quantitative Differences between Lightning and Nonlightning Convective Rainfall Events as Observed with Polarimetric Radar and MSG Satellite Data. Monthly Weather Review, 142(10), 3651-3665, doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00047.1.
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• McFarquhar, G. M., T.-L. Hsieh, M. Freer, J. Mascio, and B. F. Jewett, 2015: The Characterization of Ice Hydrometeor Gamma Size Distributions as Volumes in N0–λ–μ Phase Space: Implications for Microphysical Process Modeling. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 72(2), 892-909, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-14-0011.1.
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• Nieto-Ferreira, R., T. Rickenbach, N. Guy, and E. Williams, 2009: Radar observations of convective system variability and the interaction with African easterly waves during the 2006 AMMA IOP. Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 4136-4150. doi: 10.1175/2009MWR2740.1
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• Nowottnick, E., P. Colarco, R. Ferrare, G. Chen, S. Ismail, B. Anderson, and E. Browell, 2010: Online simulations of mineral dust aerosol distributions: Comparisons to NAMMA observations and sensitivity to dust emission parameterization. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D03202, doi: 10.1029/2009JD012692.
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• Omar, A., Z. Liu, M. Vaughan, K. Thornhill, C. Kittaka, S. Ismail, Y. Hu, G. Chen, K. Powell, D. Winker, C. Trepte, E. Winstead, and B. Anderson, 2010: Extinction‐to‐backscatter ratios of Saharan dust layers derived from in situ measurements and CALIPSO overflights during NAMMA. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D24217, doi: 10.1029/2010JD014223.
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• Pu, Z. and L. Zhang, 2010: Validation of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder temperature and moisture profiles over tropical oceans and their impact on numerical simulations of tropical cyclones. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D24114, doi: 10.1029/2010JD014258.
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• Reale, O., K. M. Lau, and A. da Silva, 2011: Impact of Interactive Aerosol on the African Easterly Jet in the NASA GEOS-5 Global Forecasting System. Weather and Forecasting, 26(4), 504-519, doi: 10.1175/WAF-D-10-05025.1.
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• Reale, O., W. K. Lau, K.-M. Kim, and E. Brin, 2009: Atlantic Tropical Cyclogenetic Processes during SOP-3 NAMMA in the GEOS-5 Global Data Assimilation and Forecast System. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66(12), 3563-3578, doi: 10.1175/2009JAS3123.1.
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• Ross, R. S., T. N. Krishnamurti, and S. Pattnaik, 2012: Interactions of Diabatic Heating in Convective Superbursts with Energy Conversion Processes in the Genesis of Cape Verde Hurricanes from African Easterly Waves. Monthly Weather Review, 140(3), 748-773, doi: 10.1175/2011MWR3621.1.
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• Ross, R. S., T. N. Krishnamurti, S. Pattnaik, and A. Simon, 2009: Energy Transformation and Diabatic Processes in Developing and Nondeveloping African Easterly Waves Observed during the NAMMA Project of 2006. Weather and Forecasting, 24(6), 1524-1548, doi: 10.1175/2009WAF2222235.1.
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• Russell, B., E. R. Williams, M. Gosset, F. Cazenave, L. Descroix, N. Guy, T. Lebel, A. Ali, F. Metayer, and G. Quantin, 2010: Radar/rain-gauge comparisons on squall lines in Niamey, Niger for the AMMA. Q. J. R.. Meteor. Soc., 136(s1), 289-303, doi:10.1002/qj.548.
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• Shen, B.-W., W.‐K. Tao, and M.‐L. C. Wu, 2010: African easterly waves in 30‐day high‐resolution global simulations: A case study during the 2006 NAMMA period. Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L18803, doi: 10.1029/2010GL044355.
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• Snyder, A. D., Z. Pu, and Y. Zhu, 2010: Tracking and Verification of East Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Genesis in the NCEP Global Ensemble: Case Studies during the NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses. Weather and Forecasting, 25(5), 1397-1411, doi: 10.1175/2010WAF2222332.1.
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• Sun, D., W. K. M. Lau, M. Kafatos, Z. Boybeyi, G. Leptoukh, C. Yang, and R. Yang, 2009: Numerical Simulations of the Impacts of the Saharan Air Layer on Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Development. Journal of Climate, 22(23), 6230-6250, doi: 10.1175/2009JCLI2738.1.
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• Wu, L., 2009: Comparison of atmospheric infrared sounder temperature and relative humidity profiles with NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) dropsonde observations. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D19205, doi: 10.1029/2009JD012083.
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• Zawislak, J. and E. J. Zipser, 2010: Observations of Seven African Easterly Waves in the East Atlantic during 2006. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 67(1), 26-43, doi: 10.1175/2009JAS3118.1.
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• Zipser, E. J., C. H. Twohy, S.-C. Tsay, K. L. Thornhill, S. Tanelli, R. Ross, T. N. Krishnamurti, Q. Ji, G. Jenkins, S. Ismail, N. C. Hsu, R. Hood, G. M. Heymsfield, A. Heymsfield, J. Halverson, H. M. Goodman, R. Ferrare, J. P. Dunion, M. Douglas, R. Cifelli, G. Chen, E. V. Browell, and B. Anderson, 2009: The Saharan Air Layer and the Fate of African Easterly Waves—NASA's AMMA Field Study of Tropical Cyclogenesis. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90(8), 1137-1156, doi: 10.1175/2009BAMS2728.1.
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