Organization of tropical convection in a GCM with varying vertical resolution; Implications for the simulation of the Madden-Julian oscillation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 777-793

  Inness, P M ^a   Slingo, J M ^a   Woolnough, S J ^a   Neale, R B ^a   Pope, V D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; ZONAL WIND;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034819444     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820000148     Document Type: Article

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