Is there a quasi-biennial oscillation in tropical deep convection?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 333-336

  Collimore, Christopher C ^a,b   Hitcliman, Matthew H ^a   Martin, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NATURAL CONVECTION; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); SEA LEVEL; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; DATA REDUCTION; HEAT CONVECTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPICS; WIND;

DEEP CONVECTION; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; ZONAL WIND;

TROPICS; CLIMATOLOGY;

OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION (OLR); QUASI BIENNIAL OSCILLATION (QBO);

QUASI BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; TROPICAL DEEP CONVECTION;

EID: 0032004742     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03722     Document Type: Article

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