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• Research interests:
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-Dynamics of African easterly waves and the West-African monsoon.
- Intraseasonal modulation of tropical convectively coupled wave activity.
- Tropical intraseasonal variability in general circulation models.
- Tropics-midlatitudes interactions on intraseasonal timescales.
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• Research programs I am / have been involved in:
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-AMMA: webpage
- EU-FP7 EMBRACE: webpage
Published articles:
• 2013, Dias J., Leroux S., Kiladis G., Tulisch S., GRL, 40: 1420-1425. How systematic is organized tropical convection within the MJO?
• 2012, Lafore, J-P, N. Asencio, D. Bouniol, F. Couvreux, C. Flammant, F. Guichard, N. Hall, S. Janicot, C. Kocha, C. Lavaysse, S. Leroux, E. Poan, P. Peyrille, R. Roca, R. Roehrig, F.Roux, F. Said. La Météorologie (edition speciale AMMA) 8, 11-16. Evolution de notre compréhension du système de mousson ouest-africain.
• 2011, Leroux S., Hall N. and Kiladis G., J. Climate, 24: 5378-5396. Intermittent African Easterly Wave activity in a dry atmospheric model: influence of the extratropics.
• 2011, Liebmann B., Blade., Kiladis G., Carvalho L., Senay G., Allured D., Leroux S., Funk C., J. Climate, (Accepted, in press). Seasonality of African Precipitation from 1996-2009.
• 2011, Janicot S., Caniaux G., Chauvin F., de Cotlogon G., Fontaine B., Hall N., Kiladis G., Lafore J. P., Lavaysse C., Lavender S. L., Leroux S. , Marteau R., Mounier F., Philippon N., Roehrig R., Sultan B., Taylor C. M. Atmosph. Sci. Lett., 12: 58-66. Intraseasonal variability of the West African monsoon.
• 2010, Leroux S., Hall N. and Kiladis G. QJRMS, 136, 397-410. A climatological study of transient-mean flow interactions over West Africa.
• 2009, Leroux S. and Hall N., J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 2303-2316. On the relationship between African easterly waves and the African easterly jet.
• 2009, Janicot S., Mounier F., Hall N., Leroux S., Sultan B., Kiladis G., J. Climate, 22, 1541-1565 The dynamics of the West African monsoon. Part IV: Analysis of 25-90-day variability of convection and the role of the Indian monsoon.
• 2007,Vanvyve E., Hall N., Messager C., Leroux S., van Ypersele J.-P., Climate Dyn., 30, 191-202. Internal variability in a regional climate model over West Africa.
