Equatorial waves including the Madden-Julian oscillation in TRMM rainfall and OLR data

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 4387-4406

  Cho, Hye Kyung ^a   Bowman, Kenneth P ^a   North, Gerald R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ERRORS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; RAIN;

MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATIONS (MJO); OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION (OLR); TROPICAL DEPRESSION (TD); TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM);

WATER WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; EQUATORIAL WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE;

EID: 11044236258     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/3215.1     Document Type: Article

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