Diurnal variation and life-cycle of deep convective systems over the tropical Pacific warm pool

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 123, Issue 538, 1997, Pages 357-388

  Chen, Shuyi S ^a   Houze Jr , Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

'Diurnal dancing'; Convective cloud cover; Intra seasonal oscillation; Tropical cloud systems; Two day waves

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUDS; CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DEEP CONVECTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; TOGA-COARE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC, (TROPICAL);

EID: 0030839553     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.53805     Document Type: Article

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