RIFTJet field campaign

Publications

  1. Munday, C., Engelstaedter, S., Washington, R., Ogutu, G., Olago, D., Ouma, G., Warner, J., Ong’ech, D., Nkatha, R., Ogola, C., Lees, T., Wanguba, B. 2024: The Turkana Jet Diurnal Cycle in Observations and Reanalysis. J. Climate, 37, 4633–4645, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0325.1.
  2. Munday, C., Savage, N., Jones, R.G. et al. Valley formation aridifies East Africa and elevates Congo Basin rainfall. Nature  615, 276–279 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05662-5
  3. Munday, C et al., 2022: Observations of the Turkana Jet and the East African dry tropics: the RIFTJet field campaign. 1–68, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0214.1.
  4. Munday, C. , R. Washington , and N. Hart , 2021: African low-level jets and their importance for water vapor transport and rainfall. Geophys. Res. Lett. , 48, e2020GL090999, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090999.
  5. Warner, J. L., Munday, C., & Engelstaedter, S. (2024). Resolving the Turkana Jet—Impact of model resolution in simulating channel flow and inversions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD040299. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040299
  6. Talib, J., Taylor, C.M., Klein, C., Warner, J., Munday, C., Folwell, S., et al. (2025) Modelling the influence of soil moisture on the Turkana jet. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, e4972. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4972