Sensitivity of intraseasonal perturbations in SST to the structure of the MJO

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2196-2207

  Zhang, Chidong ^a   Anderson, Steven P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b HORIZON MARINE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSCILLATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION;

SEA LEVEL;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0141572508     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2003)060<2196:SOIPIS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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