The Influence of Coupled Sea Surface Temperatures on the Madden-Julian Oscillation: A Model Perturbation Experiment

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 333-358

  Waliser, Duane E ^a   Lau, K M ^b   Kim, Jae Hoon ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT LOSSES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION; OSCILLATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATIONS (MJO); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST) BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SURFACE SHORTWAVE FLUX;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 0033076833     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<0333:TIOCSS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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