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Jean-Philippe Lafore
Researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Publications - 79
Citations - 5234
Jean-Philippe Lafore is an academic researcher from Centre national de la recherche scientifique. The author has contributed to research in topics: Monsoon & Convection. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 79 publications receiving 4963 citations. Previous affiliations of Jean-Philippe Lafore include National Center for Atmospheric Research.
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The Meso-NH Atmospheric Simulation System. Part I: adiabatic formulation and control simulations
Jean-Philippe Lafore,Joël Stein,Nicole Asencio,Philippe Bougeault,Véronique Ducrocq,J. Duron,C. Fischer,P. Héreil,Patrick Mascart,Valéry Masson,Jean-Pierre Pinty,Jean-Luc Redelsperger,Evelyne Richard,J. Vilà-Guerau de Arellano +13 more
TL;DR: The Meso-NH Atmospheric Simulation Engine as mentioned in this paper is a tool for small and meso-scale atmospheric processes, which is based on the Lipps and Hemler form of the anelastic system.
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Seasonal evolution of the West African heat low: a climatological perspective
Christophe Lavaysse,Cyrille Flamant,Serge Janicot,Douglas J. Parker,Jean-Philippe Lafore,Benjamin Sultan,Jacques Pelon +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method to detect the West African heat low (WAHL) in order to monitor its seasonal displacement over West Africa during the period 1979-2001, using the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) ERA-40 reanalyses.
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A Numerical Investigation of the Organization and Interaction of the Convective and Stratiform Regions of Tropical Squall Lines
TL;DR: A set of 13 two-dimensional numerical simulations based on the 22 and 23 June Soundings from the ConvectionProfonde Tropicale in 1981 (COPT81) experiment in West Africa is used to study the organization and interaction of the convective and stratiform regions of squall-line-type convective systems as mentioned in this paper.
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A Numerical Study of the Stratiform Region of a Fast-Moving Squall Line. Part I: General Description and Water and Heat Budgets
TL;DR: In this paper, a two-dimensional nonhydrostatic cloud model is applied to the simulation of a tropical squall line that occurred on 23 June during the COPT 81 experiment, which reproduces many interesting features of the stratiform part observed with Doppler radars.
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Large-scale overview of the summer monsoon over West Africa during the AMMA field experiment in 2006
Serge Janicot,Chris D. Thorncroft,Abdou Ali,Nicole Asencio,Gareth James Berry,Olivier Bock,Bernard Bourlès,Guy Caniaux,Fabrice Chauvin,A. Deme,Laurent Kergoat,Jean-Philippe Lafore,Christophe Lavaysse,Thierry Lebel,Béatrice Marticorena,Flore Mounier,Philippe Nédélec,Jean-Luc Redelsperger,Fabrizio Ravegnani,Claire E. Reeves,Rémy Roca,P. de Rosnay,Hans Schlager,Benjamin Sultan,Mireille Tomasini,A. Ulanovsky,Acmad forecasters team +26 more
TL;DR: The AMMA (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis) program is dedicated to providing a better understanding of the West African monsoon and its influence on the physical, chemical and biological environment regionally and globally, as well as relating variability of this monsoon system to issues of health, water resources, food security and demography for West African nations.