The feedback between equatorial convection and local radiative and evaporative processes: The implications for intraseasonal oscillations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 2373-2386

  Flatau, Maria ^a   Flatau, Piotr J ^a   Phoebus, Patricia ^b   Niiler, Pearn P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; HEAT CONVECTION; METEOROLOGY; WIND;

INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERE; CONVECTION; OSCILLATION;

CONVECTION; EVAPORATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; RADIATION;

EID: 0031251814     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<2373:TFBECA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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