2024 Roca Rémy, Thomas Fiolleau, Viju O. John and Jörg Schulz, METEOSAT Long Term Observations Reveal Changes in Convective Organization over Tropical Africa and Atlantic Ocean, in press to Survey of Geophysics September 2024 Thomas Fiolleau and Remy Roca (2024), A Deep Convective Systems Database Derived from the Intercalibrated Meteorological Geostationary Satellite Fleet and the TOOCAN algorithm (2012-2020) ESSD in press Prein, Andreas F., Zhe Feng, Thomas Fiolleau, Zachary L. Moon, Kelly M. Núñez Ocasio, Julia Kukulies, Rémy Roca, et al. 2024. “Km-Scale Simulations of Mesoscale Convective Systems Over South America—A Feature Tracker Intercomparison.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 129 (8): 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040254 Zeng, Xubin, Hui Su, Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Derek J. Posselt, Robert Atlas, Shannon T. Brown, Ross D. Dixon, Eric Fetzer, Thomas J. Galarneau, Jr., Michael Hardesty, Jonathan H. Jiang, Pekka P. Kangaslahti, Amir Ouyed, Thomas S. Pagano, Oliver Reitebuch, Remy Roca, Ad Stoffelen, Sara Tucker, Anna Wilson, Longtao Wu, and Igor Yanovsky. “Vientos—A New Satellite Mission Concept for 3D Wind Measurements by Combining Passive Water Vapor Sounders with Doppler Wind Lidar”, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 105, 2 (2024): E357-E369, doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0283.1 2023 Meyssignac, B., R. Guillaume-Castel, and R. Roca, 2023: Revisiting the Global Energy Budget Dynamics with a Multivariate Earth Energy Balance Model to Account for the Warming Pattern Effect. J. Climate, 36, 8113–8126, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0765.1. Barnoud, A., Picard, B., Meyssignac, B., Marti, F., Ablain, M., & Roca, R. (2023). Reducing the uncertainty in the satellite altimetry estimates of global mean sea level trends using highly stable water vapor climate data records. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128, e2022JC019378. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC019378 Stephens, Graeme, Jan Polcher, Xubin Zeng, Peter van Oevelen, Germán Poveda, Michael Bosilovich, Myoung-Hwan Ahn, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Qingyun Duan, Gabriele Hegerl, Christian Jakob, Benjamin Lamptey, Ruby Leung, Maria Piles, Zhongbo Su, Paul Dirmeyer, Kirsten L. Findell, Anne Verhoef, Michael Ek, Tristan L’Ecuyer, Rémy Roca, Ali Nazemi, Francina Dominguez, Daniel Klocke, and Sandrine Bony. “The First 30 Years of GEWEX”, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104, 1 (2023): E126-E157, doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0061.1 2022 Roca, R., De Meyer, V., & Muller, C. (2022). Precipitating fraction, not intensity, explains extreme coarse-grained precipitation Clausius-Clapeyron scaling with sea surface temperature over tropical oceans. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL100624. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100624 Oliveira, R.A.J.; Roca, R. A Simple Statistical Model of the Uncertainty Distribution for Daily Gridded Precipitation Multi-Platform Satellite Products. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 3726. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14153726 Rômulo Augusto Jucá Oliveira, Rémy Roca, Stephan Finkensieper, Sophie Cloché, Marc Schröder,Evaluating the impact of a time-evolving constellation on multi-platform satellite based daily precipitation estimates, Atmospheric Research, Volume 279, 2022,106414, ISSN 0169-8095,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106414. Elsaesser, G. S., Roca, R., Fiolleau, T., Del Genio, A. D., & Wu, J. (2022). A simple model for tropical convective cloud shield area growth and decay rates informed by geostationary IR, GPM, and Aqua/AIRS satellite data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2021JD035599. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035599 Brogniez H., R. Roca, F. Auguste, JP Chaboureau, Z. Haddad, S. J. Munchak, X. Li, D. Bouniol, A Dépée, T. Fiolleau and P. Kollias, Time-delayed tandem microwave observations of tropical deep convection: Overview of the C2OMODO mission, Frontiers in Remote Sensing, in press, 2022 2021 Puech, J.; L. Hermozo; H Brogniez; P. Chambon; R. Roca; V. Cipolla; C. Goldstein; B. Picard; R. Bennartz; B. Carayon; J.-C. Orlhac; C. Malassingne; L. Costes; N. Jeannin; A. Moraine (2021) ‘SAPHIR-NG High Resolution Microwave Sounder: Towards an Enhanced Observation of the Atmosphere’, pp. 7689–7692. doi: 10.1109/igarss47720.2021.9554426. Roca, R., Z.S. Haddad, F.F. Akimoto, L. Alexander, A. Behrangi, G. Huffman, S. Kato, C. Kidd, P.E. Kirstetter, T. Kubota, C. Kummerow, T.S. L’Ecuyer, V. Levizzani, V. Maggioni, C. Massari, H. Masunaga, M. Schröder, F.J. Tapiador, F.J. Turk and N. Utsumi, 2021: The Joint IPWG/GEWEX Precipitation Assessment. WCRP Report 2/2021, World Climate Research Programme (WCRP): Geneva, Switzerland, 125 pp. Roca, R., Masunaga, H. and Alexander, L. (2021) ‘Extreme and intense precipitation’, in Roca, R. and Haddad, Z. S. (eds), The Joint IPWG/GEWEX Precipitation Assessment. Geneva, Switzerland: World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 81–93. doi: 10.13021/gewex.precip.2.5 Roca, R., Kato, S. and L’Ecuyer, T. S. (2021) , Energy and water closure, in Roca, R. and Haddad, Z. S. (eds), The Joint IPWG/GEWEX Precipitation Assessment. World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 42–51. doi: 10.13021/gewex.precip.2.1. Bouniol, D., R. Roca, T. Fiolleau, and P. Raberanto, 2021: Life Cycle–Resolved Observation of Radiative Properties of Mesoscale Convective Systems. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 60, 1091–1104, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-20-0244.1. Ramos, A. M., Roca, R., Soares, P. M. M., Wilson, A. M., Trigo, R. M., & Ralph, F. M. (2021). Uncertainty in different precipitation products in the case of two atmospheric river events. Environmental Research Letters, 16(4). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abe25b De Meyer V and R Roca, Thermodynamic Scaling of Extreme Daily Precipitation over the Tropical Ocean from Satellite Observations, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, Article ID 2021-020, 2021, https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2021-020 2020 Roca, R., and T. Fiolleau, 2020: Extreme precipitation in the tropics is closely associated with long-lived convective systems. Commun. Earth Environ., 1, 1–6, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00015-4. Fiolleau T and R Roca, Using ScaRaB on board Megha-Tropiques to investigate the calibration of geostationary thermal infrared channels for cold cloud studies, GSICS Newsletter, in press 2020 Fiolleau, R. Roca, S. Cloché, D. Bouniol and P. Raberanto, “Homogenization of Geostationary Infrared Imager Channels for Cold Cloud Studies Using Megha-Tropiques/ScaRaB,” in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 58, no. 9, pp. 6609-6622, Sept. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2978171 Alexander, L. V., Bador, M., Roca, R., Contractor, S., Donat, M. G., & Nguyen, P. L. (2020). Intercomparison of annual precipitation indices and extremes over global land areas from in situ, space-based and reanalysis products. Environmental Research Letters, 15(5). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab79e2 Stephens, G. L., Slingo, J. M., Rignot, E., Reager, J. T., Hakuba, M. Z., Durack, P. J., Worden, J., & Roca, R. (2020). Earth’s water reservoirs in a changing climate. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 476(2236). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2019.0458 Bador, M., Alexander, L. V., Contractor, S., & Roca, R. (2020). Diverse estimates of annual maxima daily precipitation in 22 state-of-the-art quasi-global land observation datasets. Environmental Research Letters, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6a22 Roca, R., M. Dejus, P. Chambon, S. Cloché, and M. Capderou, 2020: The Megha-Tropiques Mission After Seven Years in Space. In: Levizzani V., Kidd C., Kirschbaum D., Kummerow C., Nakamura K., Turk F. (eds) Satellite Precipitation Measurement. Advances in Global Change Research, Vol. 67 of, 45–62 Springer, Cham . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24568-9_3. Roca R. et al. (2020) Merging the Infrared Fleet and the Microwave Constellation for Tropical Hydrometeorology (TAPEER) and Global Climate Monitoring (GIRAFE) Applications. In: Levizzani V., Kidd C., Kirschbaum D., Kummerow C., Nakamura K., Turk F. (eds) Satellite Precipitation Measurement. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 67. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24568-9_24 Roca, R., D. Bouniol, and T. Fiolleau, 2020: On the duration and life cycle of precipitation systems in the tropics. In: Levizzani V., Kidd C., Kirschbaum D., Kummerow C., Nakamura K., Turk F. (eds) Satellite Precipitation Measurement. Adv. Glob. Chang. Res., 69, 729–744, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35798-6_14. 2019 and before Roca R., P Chambon, M. Gosset, D. Bouniol, H. Brogniez, S. Cloché, T. Fiolleau, P. Raberanto and M. Dejus, 2019 Le bilan scientifique de la mission Megha-Tropiques après 8 ans dans l’espace, La Météorologie 36-44,107, https://doi.org/10.4267/2042/70557 Roca R, 2019 Estimation of Extremes Daily Precipitation Thermodynamic Scaling Using Gridded Satellite Precipitation Products Over Tropical Land, Res. Lett. 14 095009, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab35c6 Meyssignac, Boyer, Zhao, Hakuba, Landerer, Stammer, Köhl, Kato, L’Ecuyer, Ablain, Abraham, Blazquez, Cazenave, Church, Cowley, Cheng, Domingues, Giglio, Gouretski, Ishii, Johnson, Killick, Legler, Llovel, Lyman, Palmer, Piotrowicz, Purkey, Roemmich, Roca, Savita, von Schuckmann, Speich, Stephens, Wang, Wijffels and Zilberman, Measuring Global Ocean Heat Content to estimate the Earth Energy Imbalance, Front. Mar. Sci. | doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00432, 2019 Roca, R., Alexander, L. V., Potter, G., Bador, M., Jucá, R., Contractor, S., Bosilovich, M. G., and Cloché, S.: FROGS: a daily 1° × 1° gridded precipitation database of rain gauge, satellite and reanalysis products, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 1017-1035, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1017-2019, 2019. Tapiador, F.J., R. Roca, A. Del Genio, B. Dewitte, W. Petersen, and F. Zhang, 2019: Is Precipitation a Good Metric for Model Performance?. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 100, 223–233, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0218.1 Gosset M, Alcoba M, Roca R, Cloché S, Urbani G. Evaluation of TAPEER daily estimates and other GPM‐era products against dense gauge networks in West Africa, analysing ground reference uncertainty. Q J R Meteorol Soc 2018; 144(Suppl. 1):255–269. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3335 Roca R, Taburet N, Lorant E, et al. Quantifying the contribution of the Megha‐Tropiques mission to the estimation of daily accumulated rainfall in the Tropics. Q J R Meteorol Soc 2018; 144(Suppl. 1):49–63. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3327 Guilloteau C, Roca R, Gosset M, Venugopal V. Stochastic generation of precipitation fraction at high resolution with a multiscale constraint from satellite observations. Q J R Meteorol Soc 2018; 144(Suppl. 1):176–190. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3314 Levizzani V, Kidd C, Aonashi K, R. Bennartz, R. R. Ferraro, G. J. Huffman, R. Roca, F. J. Turk, N.-Y. Wang. The activities of the international precipitationworking group. Q J R Meteorol Soc 2018; 144(Suppl. 1):3–15. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3214 Tropical Extremes: Natural Variability and Trends, Eds Venugopal, Sukatme, Muttugurde and Roca, Elsevier, ISBN: 9780128092484 3rd September 2018 Tapiador F.J., A. Navarro, V. Levizzani, E. García-Ortega, G.J. Huffman, C. Kidd, P.A. Kucera, C.D. Kummerow, H. Masunaga, W.A. Petersen, R. Roca, J.-L. Sánchez, W.-K. Tao, F.J. Turk, Global precipitation measurements for validating climate models, 2017, Atmospheric Research, Volume 197, 15 November 2017, Pages 1-20, ISSN 0169-8095, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.06.021. Duruisseau, F., Chambon, P., Guedj, S., Guidard, V., Fourrié, N., Taillefer, F., Brousseau, P., Mahfouf, J.-F. and Roca, R. (2017), Investigating the potential benefit to a mesoscale NWP model of a microwave sounder on board a geostationary satellite. Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc. doi:10.1002/qj.3070 Roca, R., T. Fiolleau, and D. Bouniol, 2017: A Simple Model of the Life Cycle of Mesoscale Convective Systems Cloud Shield in the Tropics. 2017, J. Climate, 30, 4283–4298, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0556.1. Berthet, S., Roca, R., Duvel, J. P. and Fiolleau, T. (2017), Subseasonal variability of mesoscale convective systems over the tropical northeastern Pacific. Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 143: 1086–1094. doi:10.1002/qj.2992 Maurer V., I. Bischoff-Gauß, N. Kalthoffa, L. Gantnera, R. Roca, H.-J. Panitza, 2017 Initiation of deep convection in the Sahel in a convection-permitting climate simulation for northern Africa, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 138: 000.000. DOI:10.1002/qj.1907 Cornforth R., Z. Mumba, D. J. Parker, G. Berry, N. Chapelon, K. Diakaria, M. Diop‐Kane, V. Ermert, A. H. Fink, P. Knippertz, J‐ Lafore, A. Laing, S. Lepape, R. Maidment, J. Methven, B. N. Orji, D. Osika, E. Poan, R. Roca, S. Rowell, R. Smith, T. Spengler, C. Taylor, C. Thorncroft, J‐C. Vincendon and C. York (2017) Synoptic Systems, in Meteorology of Tropical West Africa: The Forecasters’ Handbook (eds D. J. Parker and M. Diop-Kane), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118391297.ch2 Lafore J-P., N. Chapelon, M. Diop-Kane, B. Gueye, Y. Largeron, S. Lepape, O. Ndiaye, D.J. Parker, E. Poan, R. Roca, R. Roehrig and C. Taylor (2017) Deep Convection, in Meteorology of Tropical West Africa: The Forecasters’ Handbook (eds D. J. Parker and M. Diop-Kane), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118391297.ch3 Guilloteau C, Rémy Roca, and Marielle Gosset, 2016: A Multiscale Evaluation of the Detection Capabilities of High-Resolution Satellite Precipitation Products in West Africa. J. Hydrometeor., 17, 2041–2059, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0148.1. Bouniol D, Rémy Roca, Thomas Fiolleau, and D. Emmanuel Poan, 2016: Macrophysical, Microphysical, and Radiative Properties of Tropical Mesoscale Convective Systems over Their Life Cycle. J. Climate, 29, 3353–3371, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0551.1. Makris A., C. Prieur, T. Vischel, G. Quantin, T. Lebel and R. Roca (2016), Stochastic Tracking of Mesoscale Convective Systems: Evaluation in the West African Sahel. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 30 (2), p. 681-691. Roca R, H Brogniez, P Chambon, O Chomette, S Cloché, M Gosset, JF Mahfouf, P Raberanto and N Viltard, 2015 The Megha-Tropiques mission: a review after three years in orbit, Front. Earth Sci., 3, 1–14, doi:10.3389/feart.2015.00017, 2015. Brogniez, H, G Clain and R. Roca 2015, Validation of Upper Tropospheric Humidity from SAPHIR onboard Megha-Tropiques using tropical soundings, J. Appl. Meteorol. Climat., doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0096.1 Satellites et changement climatique Seconde Edition, 184 pages, version anglaise ; ThalèsAleniaSpace Editions, 2015. R Roca, Atmosphere: A world of Air, pp 42-57, Satellites and Climate Change, Thalès Alenia Space Editions, 2015 Herrmann M., Biancamaria S. Roca R. (2015). La répartition spatiale actuelle de l’eau sur terre. In : L’eau à découvert. CNRS éditions, Paris, France. Ed. A. Euzen, C. Jeandel, R. Mosser. ISBN: 978-2-271-08829-1 Chambon, P., Meunier, L., Guillaume, F., Piriou, J., Roca, R. and Mahfouf, J. (2015), Investigating the impact of the water‐vapour sounding observations from SAPHIR on board Megha‐Tropiques for the ARPEGE global model. Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 141: 1769-1779. doi:1002/qj.2478 Schröder, M., Roca, R., Picon, L., Kniffka, A., and Brogniez, H.: 2014 Climatology of free tropospheric humidity: extension into the SEVIRI era, evaluation and exemplary analysis, Atmos. Chem. Phys. 14, 11129–11148, 2014 Thampi, B. V. and Roca, R.: Investigation of negative cloud radiative forcing over the Indian subcontinent and adjacent oceans during the summer monsoon season, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 6739-6758, doi: 10.5194/acp-14-6739-2014, 2014. Roca, R., J. Aublanc, P. Chambon, T. Fiolleau, N. Viltard, 2014: Robust Observational Quantification of the Contribution of Mesoscale Convective Systems to Rainfall in the Tropics. J. Climate, 27, 4952–4958. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00628.1 Tobin, I., S. Bony, C. E. Holloway, J. Y. Grandpeix, G. Sèze, D. Coppin, S. J. Woolnough, and R. Roca (2013), Does convective aggregation need to be represented in cumulus parameterizations? J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 5, doi:10.1002/jame.20047 Beucher, F., Lafore, J.-P., Karbou, F. and Roca, R. (2013), High-resolution prediction of a major convective period over West Africa. Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc. doi: 10.1002/qj.2225 Fiolleau, T. and Roca, R. (2013), Composite life cycle of tropical mesoscale convective systems from geostationary and low Earth orbit satellite observations: method and sampling considerations. Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 139: 941–953. doi: 10.1002/qj.2174 Fiolleau T. and R. Roca, 2013, An Algorithm for The Detection and Tracking of Tropical Mesoscale Convective Systems Using Infrared Images from Geostationary Satellite, Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2227762. Chambon P., R. Roca, I. Jobard and M. Capderou, 2012, The sensitivity of tropical rainfall estimation from satellite to the configuration of the microwave imagers constellation, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE, no.99, pp.1-5, DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2227668 Eymard L., Baron C., Caniaux G., Flamant C., Kergoat L., Karbou F., Ndione J-A., Pellarin T., Martiny N., Ramarohetra J., Vintrou E., Roca R., 2012, L’observation spatiale dans le programme AMMA, La Météorologie, DOI : 10.4267/2042/48136. Lafore JP, N. Asencio, D. Bouniol, F. Couvreux, C. Flamant, F. Guichard, N. Hall, S. Janicot, C. Kocha, C. Lavaysse, S. Leroux, E. Poan, P. Peyrillé, R. Roca, R. Roehrig, F. Roux, F. Saïd, 2012, Évolution de notre compréhension du système de mousson ouest-africain, La Météorologie, DOI : 10.4267/2042/48127. Tobin, I., S. Bony, et R. Roca (2012), Observational Evidence for Relationships between the Degree of Aggregation of Deep Convection, Water Vapor, Surface Fluxes, and Radiation, Climate, 25(20), 6885-6904, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00258.1. Sane Y., M. Bonazzola, C. Rio, P. Chambon, T. Fiolleau, I. Musat, F. Hourdin, R. Roca, J.-Y. Grandpeix and A. Diedhiou, 2012 An analysis of the diurnal cycle of precipitation over Dakar using local rain gauge data and a general circulation model, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. DOI:10.1002/qj.1932 Chambon P, Jobard I, Roca R, Viltard N.2012 An investigation of the error budget of tropical rainfall accumulation derived from merged passive microwave and infrared satellite measurements. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 138: 000.000. DOI:10.1002/qj.1907 Chomette O, Kandel R, Raberanto P, Roca R and M Viollier, 2012, The European Experiment ScaRaB (Scanner for Radiation Budget), pp 75-80, in GEWEX-RFA report, Eds: Raschke, Kine and Stackhouse, WCRP Report No. 19/2012. Roca R., R. Guzman, J. Lemond, J. Meijers, L. Picon and H. Brogniez, 2011: Tropical and extra-tropical influences on the distribution of free tropospheric humidity over the intertropical belt. Survey in Geophysics, doi:10.1007/s10712-011-9169-4 The West African monsoon onset in 2006: Sensitivity to surface albedo, orography, SST and synoptic scale dry-air intrusions using WRF, Flaounas E., Janicot S., Bastin S., and Roca, in press Climate Dynamics, 2011. Lafore, J.-P., Flamant, C., Guichard, F., Parker, D. J., Bouniol, D., Fink, A. H., Giraud, V., Gosset, M., Hall, N., Höller, H., Jones, S. C., Protat, A., Roca, R., Roux, F., Saïd, F. and Thorncroft, C. (2011), Progress in understanding of weather systems in West Africa. Atmospheric Science Letters, 12: 7–12. doi: 10.1002/asl.335 Flaounas E., Janicot S., Bastin S., Roca R., and E. Mohino, 2011, The role of the Indian monsoon onset in the West African monsoon onset: observations and AGCM nudged simulations, Climate Dynamics DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1045-x Jobard, I., Chopin, F., Berges, J. C. and Roca, R., 2011, An intercomparison of 10-day satellite precipitation products during West African monsoon, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 32: 9, 2353 2376 Roca R., P Chambon, Jobard I, P-E Kirstetter, M Gosset, JC Bergès, 2010, Comparing Satellite and Surface Rainfall Products over West Africa at Meteorologically Relevant Scales during the AMMA Campaign Using Error Estimates, J. App. Met. Clim. Volume 49, Issue 4, pp. 715-731. Sherwood, S. C., R. Roca, T. Weckwerth, and N. Andronova 2010 Tropospheric water vapor, convection and climate, Rev. Geophys., 48, RG2001, doi:10.1029/2009RG000301 Roca R, Bergès J.C., Brogniez H., Capderou M., Chambon P., Chomette O., Cloché S., Fiolleau T., Jobard I., Lémond J., Ly M., Picon L., Raberanto P., Szantai A. and Viollier M., 2010, On the Water and energy cycle in the Tropics, C. R. Geoscience (2010), doi: 10.1016/j.crte.2010.01.003 Bergès JC, I. Jobard, F. Chopin, R. Roca, 2010, EPSAT-SG: a satellite method for precipitation estimation; its concepts and implementation for the AMMA experiment Ann. Geophys., 28, 289-308, doi:10.5194/angeo-28-289-2010 Picon L and R Roca, 2010, Utilisation de l’infrarouge thermique pour l’étude du climat et son évolution, Chapitre 26, dans Traitement des données de télédétection, Michel-Claude Girard et Colette Girard. Dunod, Paris, 553 p. Picon L and R Roca, 2010, Les mesures satellitales dans l’infrarouge pour l’étude du climat, , Chapitre 1.5, dans Traitement des données de télédétection, Michel-Claude Girard et Colette Girard. Dunod, Paris, 553 p. Brogniez H., Roca R. and L. Picon 2009 A study of the free tropospheric humidity interannual variability using Meteosat data and an advection-condensation transport model Climate 22, 6773-6787 Bielli, S., and R. Roca ,2009, Scale decomposition of atmospheric water budget over West Africa during the monsoon 2006 from NCEP analyses, Clim Dyn, doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0597-5. Bergès, J. C., I. Jobard, and R. Roca, 2009 A new index to estimate precipitation using cloud growing rate, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L08808, doi:10.1029/2008GL036665 Janicot S., C. D. Thorncroft, A. Ali, N. Asencio, G. Berry, O. Bock, B. Bourles, G. Caniaux, F. Chauvin, A. Deme, L. Kergoat, J.-P. Lafore, C. Lavaysse, T. Lebel, B. Marticorena, F. Mounier, P. Nedelec, J.-L. Redelsperger, F. Ravegnani, C. E. Reeves, R. Roca, P. de Rosnay, H. Schlager, B. Sultan, M. Tomasini, A. Ulanovsky, and ACMAD forecasters team 2008 Large-scale overview of the summer monsoon over West Africa during the AMMA field experiment in 2006, Geophys., 26, 25692595 Satellites et changement climatique, 144 pages, version française, anglaise, espagnole ; ThalèsAleniaSpace Editions, 2008. R Roca, Atmosphère : un monde d’air, Satellites et changement climatique, page 46-59, ThalèsAleniaSpace Editions, 2008 Megha-Tropiques : un satellite hydrométéorologique franco-indien, M Desbois, M Capderou, L Eymard, R Roca, N Viltard, M Viollier et N Karouche, La Météorologie, pp 19-27, n° 57, mai 2007. Pierrehumbert R.T., H. Brogniez, and Roca: On the relative humidity of the Earth’s atmosphere. In The General Circulation, T. Schneider and A. Sobel Eds. Princeton University Press 2007. A clear sky radiances archive from METEOSAT “water vapor” observations, Brogniez H., Roca R. and L. Picon, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 111, No. D21, D21109, 10.1029/2006JD007238, 2006 Evaluation of the tropical free tropospheric Humidity in AMIP-2 simulations using METEOSAT Water Vapor channel data. Brogniez H., R. Roca and L. Picon, Geophys. Res. Lett, vol. 32, L19708, doi:10.1029/2005GL024341, 2005 A study of convective systems, water vapor and top of the atmosphere cloud radiative forcing over the Indian Ocean using INSAT-1B and ERBE data, R Roca, S. Louvet, L. Picon and M. Desbois, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, DOI 10.1007/s00703-004-0098-3 2005. Extra-tropical dry air intrusion into the West African monsoon mid-troposphere: an important factor for the convective activity over Sahel, R Roca, JP Lafore, C. Piriou and JL. Redelsperger, J. Atmos. Sci., Vol. 62, No. 2, pp. 390-407, 2005. Ocean mixed layer temperature variations induced by intraseasonal convective perturbations over the Indian Ocean, JP Duvel, R Roca and J. Vialard., J. Atmos. Sci., Vol. 61, No. 9, pp. 1004–1023, 2004. Upper Tropospheric drying and the “transition to break” in the Indian summer monsoon during 1999, Rao K. G., M. Desbois, R Roca and K. Nakamura, Geophysical Research Letters, VOL. 31, L03206, doi:10.1029/2003GL018269, 2004 Coupling of latent heat flux and the greenhouse effect by large-scale tropical/subtropical dynamics diagnosed in a set of observations and model simulations, Gershunov A. and R. Roca, Clim. Dyn., doi:10.1007/s00382-003-0376-7, 2004 Minvielle,, G. Cautenet, M. O. Andreae, F. Lasserre, G. Foret, S. Cautenet, J.-F. Léon, O. L. Mayol-Bracero, R. Gabriel, P. Chazette, And R. Roca, 2004: modelling the transport of aerosols during INDOEX 1999 and comparison with experimental data. Part 1: carbonaceous aerosol distribution. Atmos. Environ., 38 (12), 1811-1822 doi 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2003. 07.017. Minvielle,, G. Cautenet, F. Lasserre, G. Foret, S. Cautenet, J.-F.Léon, M. O. Andreae, O. L. Mayol-Bracero, R. Gabriel, P. Chazette, And R. Roca, 2004: modelling the transport of aerosols during INDOEX 1999 and comparison with experimental data. Part 2: continental aerosols and their optical depth. Atmos. Environ., 38 (12), 1823-1837 doi 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2003. 12.033. A new METEOSAT water vapor archive for climate studies, Picon L, Roca R, S Serrar, JL Monge and M Desbois, J. Geophys Res., vol 108, D10,10.1029/2002JD002640, 2003. Simulation at cloud and synoptic scales of the whole life cycle of a west African squall-line observed during HAPEX-Sahel: Validation and scales interactions, Diongue A, Lafore JPh, Redelsperger JL, and Roca R, QJRMS, vol 128, pp 1899-1928, 2002. A multi satellite analysis of deep convection and its moist environment over the Indian Ocean during the winter monsoon. R. Roca, M. Viollier, L. Picon and M. Desbois, J. Geophys. Res, vol 107, doi 10.1029/2000JD000040, 2002. Evaluation of a cloud system life-cycle simulated by Meso-NH during FASTEX using METEOSAT radiances and TOVS-3I cloud retrievals. Chaboureau, J.-P., Cammas, J.-P., Mascart, P., Pinty, J.P., C. Claud, R. Roca and J.-J. Morcrette, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol 126, 1735-1750, 2000. Scale Dependant properties of Monsoonal Clouds Sytems over the Indian Ocean. R. Roca and V. Ramanathan, Journal of Climate, vol. 13, 1286-1298. 2000. Evidence for control of atlantic subtropical humidity by large scale advection. Pierrehumbert R.T. and R. Roca, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 25, pp 4537-4540, 1998. Direct comparison of METEOSAT water vapor channel and general circulation model results. R. Roca, Picon L, Desbois M, Le Treut H, and Morcrette JJ, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 24, pp 147-150, 1997. A Consistency check of three radar methods for monitoring eddy diffusion and energy dissipation rates through the tropopause. 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