Observations of a convectively coupled Kelvin wave in the eastern Pacific ITCZ

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 30-53

  Straub, Katherine H ^a   Kiladis, George N ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; HEAT CONVECTION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RADIOSONDES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

STRATIFORM PRECIPITATIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; KELVIN WAVE;

EID: 0036328409     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2002)059<0030:OOACCK>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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