AMMA Field Campaigns

AMMA SOP CAMPAIGNS

This site is designed as a page covering the period of the 2006 wet SOP (mid May to end of September 2006). It provides images and reports produced for AOC needs and for later scientific analysis of the wet SOPs like

• a wide range of products for Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) (analysis, forecasts, evaluation and weather reports, ...)
• Monitoring (specific diagnostics...)
• Observations (satellites, status of platforms, quicklooks,...)
• Operations (news, status of material and communications, briefing reports, IOP reports,...)

Individual sites:

ACODAK is the center for coordination of the third Specific Observing Period (SOP3) in Dakar (septembre 2006). ACODAK is hosted by Laboratoire de Physique de l'Atmosphère et de l'Océan Simeon Fongang (LPAOSF), Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique (ESP) de Dakar and Université Cheick Anta Diop (UCAD).

Besides the general site, several individual sites exist to follow the instrument deployment or other activities in the frame of the AMMA field campaigns:

• Daily Briefing and Debriefing Reports from AOC Niamey
• The ocean cruise EGEE 3 with the R/V ATALANTE from May 25th to July 7th 2006 (Official log book) (AMMA log book)
• The ocean cruise of the R/V Ron Brown from May to June 2006    (AMMA log book)
• AMF Instrument Data Plots
  Data plots from the ARM Data Quality Program's Data Quality Health and Status (DQ HandS) tool are available for the Niamey, Niger, West Africa, deployment.
• DRY RUN 2005 Exercise: To access the workspace DRY RUN 2005, an user name and a pass word are required --> ask to J.P. Lafore Email: jean-philippe.lafore@meteo.fr