Research Article

Regional Climate Model Sensitivity to Domain Size for the Simulation of the West African Summer Monsoon Rainfall

Figure 1

(a) The West African domain sizes and (b) topography (in meters). The analyzed domain for quantitative assessment extends from 20°W to 20°E and 0 to 20°N in red. The highlands are highlighted by their respective acronyms: Guinea Highlands (GH), Jos Plateau (JP), Cameroun Mountains (CM), and Sudanese Highlands (SH).
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