African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis: an integrated project for understanding of the West African climate system and its human dimension
African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis: an integrated project for understanding of the West African climate system and its human dimension
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非洲季风多学科分析：了解西非气候系统及其人文因素的综合项目
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10.1002/asl.331
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2011
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3
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Polcher J
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Polcher J
非洲季风多学科分析（AMMA）计划通常被描述为气候和环境领域有史以来最大的多学科研究工作之一，当然也是非洲最大、最广泛的尝试。衡量研究计划的规模和影响的方法可能有很多，但 AMMA 在其广泛的研究领域（从大气物理学到经济气候响应）以及这些研究和相互关联的深度方面无疑是引人注目的。许多相关领域的研究工作强度反映在这样一个事实上：迄今为止，至少有五期专门讨论 AMMA 结果的专业期刊特刊。 AMMA 在整合非洲和“北方”（主要是欧洲和美国）研究界之间的研究工作以及纯研究与实用、操作方法之间的联系方面也很引人注目。在 AMMA 计划中，欧盟委员会根据其第六个框架计划 (AMMA-EU) 资助的综合项目发挥了特殊作用，因为它是真正的多学科项目，并且在 59 个合作机构中，超过三分之一来自非洲。本期特刊的主要目标是总结 AMMA-EU 对整个计划的贡献。它还旨在就 AMMA 迄今为止如何增进我们对西非季风系统的理解以及如何利用这些知识来改进业务活动发表立场声明。因此，这是迄今为止唯一涉及 AMMA 活动及其整合整个范围的特刊，它证明了汇集了各种研究小组的多学科项目的价值。这里收集的许多论文直接来自主要作者在皇家气象学会和欧洲气象学会特别联席会议上的演讲，这是第一次此类联合活动，于 2009 年 10 月举行，标志着 AMMA-EU 和欧洲气象局资助的活动的结束。 AMMA-英国。我们想借此机会感谢我们的欧盟项目经理 Georgios Amanatidis 和 Philippe Tulkens 在 AMMA-EU 活动期间的积极支持和鼓励；菲利普还直接协助了本期特刊的创刊。感谢 NERC 根据合同 NE/B505538/1 为 AMMAUK 提供资金。我们还要感谢英国皇家气象学会和欧洲气象学会为组织 2009 年 10 月的 AMMA 会议所做的努力，并使本期特刊得以收集。
The African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) programme is often described as being one of the largest multidisciplinary research efforts ever attempted in the area of climate and environment, and certainly the largest and most extensive attempted in Africa. There are probably many ways of measuring the scale and impact of a research programme, but AMMA has certainly been conspicuous in the wide scope of its research fields, from atmospheric physics through to economic climate responses, and the depth in which these have been pursued and interlinked. This intensity of research effort in many linked fields is reflected in the fact that there have to date been at least five special issues of specialist journals devoted to AMMA results. AMMA has also been conspicuous in its integration of research efforts between the African and the ‘northern’(principally European and US) research communities, as well as its links between pure research and practical, operational methods. Within the AMMA programme, the Integrated Project funded by the European Commission under its sixth Framework Programme (AMMA-EU) played a special role as it was truly multidisciplinary and out of the 59 partner institutions over one third were from Africa. The primary goal of this special issue is to summarise the contribution of AMMA-EU to the overall programme. It also aims to make a position statement regarding the ways in which AMMA has, to date, advanced our understanding of the West African monsoon system, and the ways in which this knowledge is being used to improve operational activities. As such, this is the only special issue to date which deals with the whole scope of AMMA’s activities and their integration and it is a testimony to the value of multidisciplinary projects which bring together a wide variety of research groups.Many of the papers assembled here arise directly from presentations given by lead authors at a special joint meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society and the European Meteorological Society–the first such joint event–held in October 2009 to mark the end of the activities funded by AMMA-EU and AMMA-UK. We would like to use this opportunity to thank our EU project managers, Georgios Amanatidis and Philippe Tulkens, for their active support and encouragement during the years of AMMA-EU’s activity; Philippe also assisted directly in the inception of this special issue. NERC is thanked for funding AMMAUK under contract NE/B505538/1. We wish also to thank the Royal Meteorological Society and the European Meteorological Society for their efforts in organising the AMMA meeting in October 2009, and enabling this special issue to be collected.