30-60-day oscillations of convection and circulation associated with the thermal state of the western Pacific warm pool during boreal summer

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 781-793

  Ren, Baohua ^a,b   Huang, Ronghui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

30 60 day oscillation; Circulation; Convection; Thermal states; Western Pacific warm pool

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 1542379969     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02915403     Document Type: Article

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