Interactions between the boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation and higher-frequency tropical wave activity

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 945-960

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CODES (STANDARDS); HEAT CONVECTION; OSCILLATIONS; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SEASONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037645917     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<0945:IBTBSI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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