Saharan Mineral Dust and the Dynamics of African Easterly Waves: Sensitivity to Spatial Variations in the Zonally Averaged Background State

Dustin Grogan, University at Albany State University of New York, Department of Atmospheric and Environemental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States, Terrence R Nathan, University of California Davis, Atmospheric Sciience Program, Davis, CA, United States and Shu-Hua Chen, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States