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Articles | Volume 25, issue 23
Articles | Volume 25, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-17301-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-17301-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 25, issue 23
Research article
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02 Dec 2025
Research article |  | 02 Dec 2025

Understanding mesoscale convective processes over the Congo Basin using the Model for Prediction Across Scales-Atmosphere (MPAS-A)

Siyu Zhao, Rong Fu, Kelly Núñez Ocasio, Robert Nystrom, Cenlin He, Jiaying Zhang, Xianan Jiang, and Joao Teixeira

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Code and Data for "Understanding mesoscale convective processes over the Congo Basin using the Model for Prediction Across Scales-Atmosphere (MPAS-A)'' S. Zhao https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15758254

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Code and Data for "Understanding mesoscale convective processes over the Congo Basin using the Model for Prediction Across Scales-Atmosphere (MPAS-A)'' S. Zhao https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15758254

knubez/TAMS: v0.1.7 Z. Moon and K. M. Núñez Ocasio https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15353123

knubez/MPAS-Model: MPAS v8.0.1-isolevels M. Duda et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13696552

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The Congo Basin has frequent organized thunderstorms producing much of the region’s rainfall, yet their development remains unclear due to limited data. Using a high-resolution global model, it shows the long-lasting storm is significantly linked to and supported by vertical wind shear up to 400 km ahead, with the mid-level jet stream playing a role in maintaining the shear. The findings highlight the value of such model in data-sparse regions for examining storms and their impacts.
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