Simulation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in the NCAR CCM3 using a revised Zhang-McFarlane convection parameterization scheme

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 4046-4064

  Zhang, Guang J ^a   Mu, Mingquan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WIND EFFECTS;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION (OLR);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CONVECTION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PARAMETERIZATION; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 27944501043     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3508.1     Document Type: Article

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