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List of works by Luis Garcia-Carreras

A seamless assessment of the role of convection in the water cycle of the West African Monsoon

Advances in understanding mineral dust and boundary layer processes over the Sahara from Fennec aircraft observations

scholarly article

Building narratives to characterise uncertainty in regional climate change through expert elicitation

scholarly article by Suraje Dessai et al published 26 June 2018 in Environmental Research Letters

Characteristics of mid-level clouds over West Africa

Clouds over the summertime Sahara: an evaluation of Met Office retrievals from Meteosat Second Generation using airborne remote sensing

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Cross-Saharan transport of water vapor via recycled cold pool outflows from moist convection.

scientific article published on 04 February 2017

Evapotranspiration in the Amazon: spatial patterns, seasonality, and recent trends in observations, reanalysis, and climate models

scientific article published in 2021

How does local tropical deforestation affect rainfall?

scholarly article

Impact of mesoscale vegetation heterogeneities on the dynamical and thermodynamic properties of the planetary boundary layer

scientific article published in 2010

Isoprene emissions modelling for West Africa: MEGAN model evaluation and sensitivity analysis

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Large-eddy simulation of dust-uplift by a haboob density current

scholarly article by Qian Huang et al published April 2018 in Atmospheric Environment

Meteorological and dust aerosol conditions over the western Saharan region observed at Fennec Supersite-2 during the intensive observation period in June 2011

New Saharan wind observations reveal substantial biases in analysed dust-generating winds

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Observations of Increased Cloud Cover over Irrigated Agriculture in an Arid Environment

Quantifying particle size and turbulent scale dependence of dust flux in the Sahara using aircraft measurements

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Sea-Breeze Dynamics and Convection Initiation: The Influence of Convective Parameterization in Weather and Climate Model Biases

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Simulation of vegetation feedbacks on local and regional scale precipitation in West Africa

scholarly article by Andrew J. Hartley et al published May 2016 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

The Impact of Parameterized Convection on the Simulation of Crop Processes

The Turbulent Structure and Diurnal Growth of the Saharan Atmospheric Boundary Layer

article published in 2015

The contrasting roles of water and dust in controlling daily variations in radiative heating of the summertime Saharan heat low

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The effect of background wind on mesoscale circulations above variable soil moisture in the Sahel

The impact of Amazonian deforestation on Amazon basin rainfall

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The impact of convective cold pool outflows on model biases in the Sahara

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The physical processes causing nocturnal rainfall over northwest Australia and their representation in high- and low-resolution models with parametrized convection

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

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Transport of dust particles from the Bodélé region to the monsoon layer – AMMA case study of the 9–14 June 2006 period

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What is the Mechanism for the Modification of Convective Cloud Distributions by Land Surface–Induced Flows?