Morlet wavelet analysis of tropical convection over space and time: Study of poleward propagations of Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Piyush Shanker, A ^a   Nanjundiah, Ravi S ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HEAT CONVECTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

MORLET WAVE ANALYSIS; POLEWARD PROPAGATION; TROPICAL CONVECTION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MORLET WAVELET; MORLET WAVELET TRANSFORM; POWER-SPECTRA; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; TEMPORAL SCALE;

GEOPHYSICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CONVECTION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 18144448842     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018150     Document Type: Article

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