Research Article
The Influence of Topography on East African October to December Climate: Sensitivity Experiments with RegCM4
Figure 6
Climatology of OND water vapor/moisture transport (MTR) at 850 hpa in g kg−1 ms−1 over the period 2000–2008. The shaded regions indicate moisture convergence (positive) and moisture divergence (negative), and the vectors show water vapor transport. (a) ERA interim reanalysis MTR, (b) simulated MTR using actual topography (TP100), (c) simulated MTR when KTU topography is reduced to 25%, and (d) difference in MTR [(c) minus (b)].
| (a) MTR OBS |
| (b) MTR TP100 |
| (c) MTR TP25 |
| (d) MTR TP25-TP100 |