A systematic analysis of multiscale deep convective variability over the tropical pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2736-2751

  Tung, Wen Wen ^a   Moncrieff, Mitchell W ^a   Gao, Jian Bo ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; IMAGE SENSORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITES;

AUTOCORRELATION METHODS; MULTISCALE TROPICAL DEEP CONVECTIVE VARIABILITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL FEATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 3242787497     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<2736:ASAOMD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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