The Madden-Julian oscillation and its impact on Northern Hemisphere weather predictability

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1462-1471

  Jones, Charles ^a   Waliser, Duane E ^b   Lau, K M ^c   Stern, W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; STORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

DATASETS; WEATHER VARIABLES;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE FORCING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 3042844847     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<1462:TMOAII>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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