List of works - Peter Knippertz

A Global Climatology of Tropical Moisture Exports ⬇️

article published in 2013

A Lagrangian Climatology of Tropical Moisture Exports to the Northern Hemispheric Extratropics ⬇️

A Pacific Moisture Conveyor Belt and Its Relationship to a Significant Precipitation Event in the Semiarid Southwestern United States

A climatology of dust emission events from northern Africa using long-term surface observations ⬇️

scholarly article

A climatology of dust emission events from northern Africa using long-term surface observations

A critical evaluation of the ability of the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) thermal infrared red-green-blue rendering to identify dust events: Theoretical analysis ⬇️

article

A meteorological and chemical overview of the DACCIWA field campaign in West Africa in June–July 2016 ⬇️

scholarly article

A meteorological and chemical overview of the DACCIWA field campaign in West Africa in June–July 2016

Aerosol distribution in the northern Gulf of Guinea: local anthropogenic sources, long-range transport and the role of coastal shallow circulations

Aerosol distribution in the northern Gulf of Guinea: local anthropogenic sources, long-range transport, and the role of coastal shallow circulations ⬇️

scholarly article

Aerosol liquid water content in the moist southern West African monsoon layer and its radiative impact

scholarly article

Aerosol liquid water content in the moist southern West African monsoon layer and its radiative impact

An extreme precipitation event in southern Morocco in spring 2002 and some hydrological implications

scientific article published in October 2003

Analysis of winter dust activity off the coast of West Africa using a new 24-year over-water advanced very high resolution radiometer satellite dust climatology ⬇️

article

Are vegetation-related roughness changes the cause of the recent decrease in dust emission from the Sahel? ⬇️

scientific article

Changing cyclones and surface wind speeds over the North Atlantic and Europe in a transient GHG experiment

scientific article published in 2000

Chemical composition and complex refractive index of Saharan Mineral Dust at Izaña, Tenerife (Spain) derived by electron microscopy

article

Climatology of convective density currents in the southern foothills of the Atlas Mountains ⬇️

scientific article published in 2010

Climatology of nocturnal low-level jets over North Africa and implications for modeling mineral dust emission ⬇️

scientific article

Cloud and aerosol radiative effects as key players for anthropogenic changes in atmospheric dynamics over southernWest Africa

article

Convective Squalls over the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic ⬇️

Decadal changes in the link between El Niño and springtime North Atlantic oscillation and European-North African rainfall

scientific article published in September 2003

Depolarization ratio profiling at several wavelengths in pure Saharan dust during SAMUM 2006

Desert dust aerosol air mass mapping in the western Sahara, using particle properties derived from space-based multi-angle imaging

Diagnosing the influence of diabatic processes on the explosive deepening of extratropical cyclones ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: April 2012)

Diurnal cycle of coastal anthropogenic pollutant transport over southern West Africa during the DACCIWA campaign

article

Diurnal cycle of coastal anthropogenic pollutant transport over southern West Africa during the DACCIWA campaign

scholarly article

Drivers for the deepening of severe European windstorms and their impacts on forecast quality

scholarly article by Jennifer S. R. Pirret et al published 8 December 2016 in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Dry-Season Precipitation in Tropical West Africa and Its Relation to Forcing from the Extratropics

article

Dust emissions in the West African heat trough the role of the diurnal cycle and of extratropical disturbances

article

Dust emissions over the Sahel associated with the West African monsoon intertropical discontinuity region: A representative case-study

article

Dust may cool polar regions ⬇️

Dust mobilization and aerosol transport from West Africa to Cape Verde—a meteorological overview of SAMUM-2

article

Dust mobilization and aerosol transport from West Africa to Cape Verde—a meteorological overview of SAMUM–2 ⬇️

article

Dust mobilization and transport in the northern Sahara during SAMUM 2006 – a meteorological overview

scientific article published in January 2009

Dust mobilization and transport in the northern Sahara during SAMUM 2006 – a meteorological overview

Dust mobilization due to density currents in the Atlas region: Observations from the Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment 2006 field campaign

scientific article published in 2007

Dynamics and Predictability of a Heavy Dry-Season Precipitation Event over West Africa—Sensitivity Experiments with a Global Model

article

EARLINET observations of the 14–22-May long-range dust transport event during SAMUM 2006: validation of results from dust transport modelling

Equatorward breaking Rossby waves over the North Atlantic and Mediterranean region in the ECMWF operational Ensemble Prediction System ⬇️

Flying through extratropical cyclone Friedhelm ⬇️

Forecasting wind gusts in winter storms using a calibrated convection-permitting ensemble

article

Formation and Maintenance of Nocturnal Low-Level Stratus over the Southern West African Monsoon Region during AMMA 2006 ⬇️

article

Haboobs: convectively generated dust storms in West Africa ⬇️

article

Heavy Precipitation at the Alpine South Side and Saharan Dust over Central Europe: A Predictability Study Using TIGGE ⬇️

article published in 2011

High‐resolution simulations of convective cold pools over the northwestern Sahara

scholarly article

How important are atmospheric depressions and mobile cyclones for emitting mineral dust aerosol in North Africa?

scholarly article

How important are cyclones for emitting mineral dust aerosol in North Africa?

article

Identification and global climatology of upper-level troughs at low latitudes

Identifying errors in dust models from data assimilation ⬇️

scientific article

Influence of Saharan dust on cloud glaciation in southern Morocco during the Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment

scientific article published on 27 February 2008

Introduction to the AMMA Special Issue on ‘Advances in understanding atmospheric processes over West Africa through the AMMA field campaign’ ⬇️

article

Links between African easterly waves, midlatitude circulation and intraseasonal pulsations of the West African heat low ⬇️

Long-term precipitation variability in Morocco and the link to the large-scale circulation in recent and future climates

scholarly article

Mineral dust aerosols over the Sahara: Meteorological controls on emission and transport and implications for modeling ⬇️

article

Mineral dust observed with AERONET Sun photometer, Raman lidar, and in situ instruments during SAMUM 2006: Shape-independent particle properties ⬇️

scientific article published in 2010

Moroccan Climate in the Present and Future: Combined View from Observational Data and Regional Climate Scenarios

Northward bursts of the West African monsoon leading to rainfall over the Hoggar Massif, Algeria ⬇️

scholarly article by Juan Cuesta et al published 22 June 2009 in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Numerical simulations of aerosol radiative effects and their impact on clouds and atmospheric dynamics over southern West Africa

scholarly article

Orographic Effects and Evaporative Cooling along a Subtropical Cold Front: The Case of the Spectacular Saharan Dust Outbreak of March 2004 ⬇️

Overview and first results of the Wind and Storms Experiment (WASTEX): a field campaign to observe the formation of gusts using a Doppler lidar

article by Florian Pantillon et al published 25 May 2018 in Advances in science and research : ASR : an open access journal for refereed proceedings

Prediction of Dry-Season Precipitation in Tropical West Africa and Its Relation to Forcing from the Extratropics ⬇️

article

Rainfall types over southern West Africa: Objective identification, climatology and synoptic environment

scientific article published in July 2018

Regional Model Simulations of the Bodélé Low-Level Jet of Northern Chad during the Bodélé Dust Experiment (BoDEx 2005)

article

Regional Saharan dust modelling during the SAMUM 2006 campaign

scientific article published in January 2009

Regional modelling of Saharan dust and biomass-burning smoke

scientific article published in January 2011

Regional modelling of Saharan dust and biomass-burning smoke Part I: Model description and evaluation

article

Reply ⬇️

article published in 2009

Research flight observations of a prefrontal gravity wave near the southwestern UK ⬇️

scholarly article by Peter Knippertz et al published 25 October 2010 in Weather

Resolving Sahelian thunderstorms improves mid-latitude weather forecasts

scientific article published on 02 August 2019

Revealing the meteorological drivers of the September 2015 severe dust event in the Eastern Mediterranean

scholarly article

Revisiting interannual to decadal teleconnections influencing seasonal rainfall in the Greater Horn of Africa during the 20th century

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Revisiting the synoptic-scale predictability of severe European winter storms using ECMWF ensemble reforecasts

article by Florian Pantillon et al published 19 October 2017 in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Revisiting the synoptic-scale predictability of severe European winter storms using ECMWF ensemble reforecasts

scholarly article published 31 March 2017

Saharan dust absorption and refractive index from aircraft-based observations during SAMUM 2006

Simulations of convectively‐driven density currents in the Atlas region using a regional model: Impacts on dust emission and sensitivity to horizontal resolution and convection schemes

scientific article published on 30 April 2009

Size distribution, mass concentration, chemical and mineralogical composition and derived optical parameters of the boundary layer aerosol at Tinfou, Morocco, during SAMUM 2006

scholarly article by Konrad Kandler et al published January 2009 in Tellus B

Size distribution, mass concentration, chemical and mineralogical composition and derived optical parameters of the boundary layer aerosol at Tinfou, Morocco, during SAMUM 2006

scholarly article by Konrad Kandler et al published 1 February 2009 in Tellus B

Soudano-Saharan depressions and their importance for precipitation and dust: a new perspective on a classical synoptic concept ⬇️

Status and future of numerical atmospheric aerosol prediction with a focus on data requirements ⬇️

scholarly article

Supplementary material to "A meteorological and chemical overview of the DACCIWA field campaign in West Africa in June–July 2016"

scientific article

Synoptic and dynamic aspects of an extreme springtime Saharan dust outbreak

scholarly article by Peter Knippertz & Andreas H Fink published 1 April 2006 in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

The Ewiem Nimdie Summer School Series in Ghana: Capacity Building in Meteorological Education and Research, Lessons Learned, and Future Prospects

article

The Ewiem Nimdie Summer School Series in Ghana: Capacity Building in Meteorological Education and Research—Lessons Learned and Future Prospects ⬇️

article

The central west Saharan dust hot spot and its relation to African easterly waves and extratropical disturbances ⬇️

article

The devil in the detail of storms

article by Peter Knippertz et al published 30 April 2018 in Environmental Research Letters

The impact of GPS and high-resolution radiosonde nudging on the simulation of heavy precipitation during HyMeX IOP6

scientific article published on 18 January 2021

The impact of a mesoscale convective system cold pool on the northward propagation of the intertropical discontinuity over West Africa ⬇️

article

The importance of the representation of deep convection for modeled dust-generating winds over West Africa during summer ⬇️

article

The mysterious long-range transport of giant mineral dust particles

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

The predictability of precipitation episodes during the West African dry season ⬇️

The role of deep convection and nocturnal low-level jets for dust emission in summertime West Africa: Estimates from convection-permitting simulations ⬇️

scientific article

The role of dynamic and diabatic processes in the generation of cut-off lows over Northwest Africa

article

The role of low-level clouds in the West African monsoon system

scholarly article

The role of moist convection in the West African monsoon system: Insights from continental-scale convection-permitting simulations ⬇️

article

The vertical cloud structure of the West African monsoon: A 4 year climatology using CloudSat and CALIPSO ⬇️

scholarly article

The “Year” of Tropical Convection (May 2008–April 2010): Climate Variability and Weather Highlights ⬇️

scholarly article

TheBraerstorm revisited ⬇️

Tropical plumes and extreme precipitation in subtropical and tropical West Africa

article

Tropical–Extratropical Interactions Associated with an Atlantic Tropical Plume and Subtropical Jet Streak

Tropical–extratropical interactions related to upper-level troughs at low latitudes

Ultra-low clouds over the southern West African monsoon region ⬇️

article

Vertical profiling of Saharan dust with Raman lidars and airborne HSRL in southern Morocco during SAMUM

scholarly article by Matthias Tesche et al published January 2009 in Tellus B

Vertical profiling of Saharan dust with Raman lidars and airborne HSRL in southern Morocco during SAMUM

scholarly article by Matthias Tesche et al published 1 February 2009 in Tellus B

Vertical profiling of convective dust plumes in southern Morocco during SAMUM

scholarly article by Albert Ansmann et al published January 2009 in Tellus B

Vertical profiling of convective dust plumes in southern Morocco during SAMUM

scholarly article by Albert Ansmann et al published 1 February 2009 in Tellus B

Weakening and moistening of the summertime Saharan heat low through convective cold pools from the Atlas Mountains

scientific article

List of works by Peter Knippertz

A Global Climatology of Tropical Moisture Exports ⬇️

A Lagrangian Climatology of Tropical Moisture Exports to the Northern Hemispheric Extratropics ⬇️

A Pacific Moisture Conveyor Belt and Its Relationship to a Significant Precipitation Event in the Semiarid Southwestern United States

A climatology of dust emission events from northern Africa using long-term surface observations ⬇️

A climatology of dust emission events from northern Africa using long-term surface observations

A critical evaluation of the ability of the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) thermal infrared red-green-blue rendering to identify dust events: Theoretical analysis ⬇️

A meteorological and chemical overview of the DACCIWA field campaign in West Africa in June–July 2016 ⬇️

A meteorological and chemical overview of the DACCIWA field campaign in West Africa in June–July 2016

Aerosol distribution in the northern Gulf of Guinea: local anthropogenic sources, long-range transport and the role of coastal shallow circulations

Aerosol distribution in the northern Gulf of Guinea: local anthropogenic sources, long-range transport, and the role of coastal shallow circulations ⬇️

Aerosol liquid water content in the moist southern West African monsoon layer and its radiative impact

Aerosol liquid water content in the moist southern West African monsoon layer and its radiative impact

An extreme precipitation event in southern Morocco in spring 2002 and some hydrological implications

Analysis of winter dust activity off the coast of West Africa using a new 24-year over-water advanced very high resolution radiometer satellite dust climatology ⬇️

Are vegetation-related roughness changes the cause of the recent decrease in dust emission from the Sahel? ⬇️

Changing cyclones and surface wind speeds over the North Atlantic and Europe in a transient GHG experiment

Chemical composition and complex refractive index of Saharan Mineral Dust at Izaña, Tenerife (Spain) derived by electron microscopy

Climatology of convective density currents in the southern foothills of the Atlas Mountains ⬇️

Climatology of nocturnal low-level jets over North Africa and implications for modeling mineral dust emission ⬇️

Cloud and aerosol radiative effects as key players for anthropogenic changes in atmospheric dynamics over southernWest Africa

Convective Squalls over the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic ⬇️

Decadal changes in the link between El Niño and springtime North Atlantic oscillation and European-North African rainfall

Depolarization ratio profiling at several wavelengths in pure Saharan dust during SAMUM 2006

Depolarization ratio profiling at several wavelengths in pure Saharan dust during SAMUM 2006

Desert dust aerosol air mass mapping in the western Sahara, using particle properties derived from space-based multi-angle imaging

Desert dust aerosol air mass mapping in the western Sahara, using particle properties derived from space-based multi-angle imaging

Diagnosing the influence of diabatic processes on the explosive deepening of extratropical cyclones ⬇️

Diurnal cycle of coastal anthropogenic pollutant transport over southern West Africa during the DACCIWA campaign

Diurnal cycle of coastal anthropogenic pollutant transport over southern West Africa during the DACCIWA campaign

Drivers for the deepening of severe European windstorms and their impacts on forecast quality

Dry-Season Precipitation in Tropical West Africa and Its Relation to Forcing from the Extratropics

Dust emissions in the West African heat trough the role of the diurnal cycle and of extratropical disturbances

Dust emissions over the Sahel associated with the West African monsoon intertropical discontinuity region: A representative case-study

Dust may cool polar regions ⬇️

Dust mobilization and aerosol transport from West Africa to Cape Verde—a meteorological overview of SAMUM-2

Dust mobilization and aerosol transport from West Africa to Cape Verde—a meteorological overview of SAMUM–2 ⬇️

Dust mobilization and transport in the northern Sahara during SAMUM 2006 – a meteorological overview

Dust mobilization and transport in the northern Sahara during SAMUM 2006 – a meteorological overview

Dust mobilization due to density currents in the Atlas region: Observations from the Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment 2006 field campaign

Dynamics and Predictability of a Heavy Dry-Season Precipitation Event over West Africa—Sensitivity Experiments with a Global Model

EARLINET observations of the 14–22-May long-range dust transport event during SAMUM 2006: validation of results from dust transport modelling

EARLINET observations of the 14–22-May long-range dust transport event during SAMUM 2006: validation of results from dust transport modelling

Equatorward breaking Rossby waves over the North Atlantic and Mediterranean region in the ECMWF operational Ensemble Prediction System ⬇️

Flying through extratropical cyclone Friedhelm ⬇️

Forecasting wind gusts in winter storms using a calibrated convection-permitting ensemble

Formation and Maintenance of Nocturnal Low-Level Stratus over the Southern West African Monsoon Region during AMMA 2006 ⬇️

Haboobs: convectively generated dust storms in West Africa ⬇️

Heavy Precipitation at the Alpine South Side and Saharan Dust over Central Europe: A Predictability Study Using TIGGE ⬇️

High‐resolution simulations of convective cold pools over the northwestern Sahara

How important are atmospheric depressions and mobile cyclones for emitting mineral dust aerosol in North Africa?

How important are cyclones for emitting mineral dust aerosol in North Africa?

Identification and global climatology of upper-level troughs at low latitudes

Identifying errors in dust models from data assimilation ⬇️

Influence of Saharan dust on cloud glaciation in southern Morocco during the Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment

Introduction to the AMMA Special Issue on ‘Advances in understanding atmospheric processes over West Africa through the AMMA field campaign’ ⬇️

Links between African easterly waves, midlatitude circulation and intraseasonal pulsations of the West African heat low ⬇️

Long-term precipitation variability in Morocco and the link to the large-scale circulation in recent and future climates

Mineral dust aerosols over the Sahara: Meteorological controls on emission and transport and implications for modeling ⬇️

Mineral dust observed with AERONET Sun photometer, Raman lidar, and in situ instruments during SAMUM 2006: Shape-independent particle properties ⬇️

Moroccan Climate in the Present and Future: Combined View from Observational Data and Regional Climate Scenarios

Northward bursts of the West African monsoon leading to rainfall over the Hoggar Massif, Algeria ⬇️

Numerical simulations of aerosol radiative effects and their impact on clouds and atmospheric dynamics over southern West Africa

Orographic Effects and Evaporative Cooling along a Subtropical Cold Front: The Case of the Spectacular Saharan Dust Outbreak of March 2004 ⬇️

Overview and first results of the Wind and Storms Experiment (WASTEX): a field campaign to observe the formation of gusts using a Doppler lidar

Prediction of Dry-Season Precipitation in Tropical West Africa and Its Relation to Forcing from the Extratropics ⬇️

Rainfall types over southern West Africa: Objective identification, climatology and synoptic environment

Regional Model Simulations of the Bodélé Low-Level Jet of Northern Chad during the Bodélé Dust Experiment (BoDEx 2005)

Regional Saharan dust modelling during the SAMUM 2006 campaign

Regional Saharan dust modelling during the SAMUM 2006 campaign

Regional modelling of Saharan dust and biomass-burning smoke

Regional modelling of Saharan dust and biomass-burning smoke Part I: Model description and evaluation

Reply ⬇️

Research flight observations of a prefrontal gravity wave near the southwestern UK ⬇️

Resolving Sahelian thunderstorms improves mid-latitude weather forecasts

Revealing the meteorological drivers of the September 2015 severe dust event in the Eastern Mediterranean

Revisiting interannual to decadal teleconnections influencing seasonal rainfall in the Greater Horn of Africa during the 20th century

Revisiting the synoptic-scale predictability of severe European winter storms using ECMWF ensemble reforecasts

Revisiting the synoptic-scale predictability of severe European winter storms using ECMWF ensemble reforecasts

Saharan dust absorption and refractive index from aircraft-based observations during SAMUM 2006