An all-season real-time multivariate MJO index: Development of an index for monitoring and prediction

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1917-1932

  Wheeler, Matthew C ^a   Hendon, Harry H ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS (EOF); MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION (MJO); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT (PC); TIME FILTERING;

DATA ACQUISITION; PROBABILITY; RAIN; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; INDEX METHOD; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 2942673326     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<1917:AARMMI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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