1/f noise and pulse-like events in the tropical atmospheric surface variabilities

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 600 PART A, 2004, Pages 1697-1721

  Yano, Jun Ichi ^a   Blender, Richard ^b   Zhang, Chidong ^c   Fraedrich, Klaus ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Madden Julian oscillations; Scaling; Tropical convection

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FREQUENCIES; MOISTURE; OSCILLATIONS; WIND;

MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATIONS (MJO); SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NOISE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 3142660028     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.42     Document Type: Article

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