A mechanism of the Madden-Julian Oscillation based on interactions in the frequency domain

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 593 PART B, 2003, Pages 2559-2590

  Krishnamurti, T N ^a   Chakraborty, D R ^a   Cubukcu, Nihat ^a   Stefanova, Lydia ^a   Vijaya Kumar, T S V ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate modelling; Intraseasonal oscillations; Nonlinear dynamics of waves

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MOISTURE; OSCILLATIONS;

BOUNDARY-LAYER FLUXES;

METEOROLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; HEAT FLUX; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SURFACE FLUX;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0141800115     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.151     Document Type: Article

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