Simulations of the Madden-Julian oscillation in four pairs of coupled and uncoupled global models

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 573-592

  Zhang, Chidong ^a,h   Dong, Min ^a,i   Gualdi, Silvio ^b   Hendon, Harry H ^c   Maloney, Eric D ^d   Marshall, Andrew ^e   Sperber, Kenneth R ^f   Wang, Wanqiu ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison   (United States)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^h China Meteorology Administration ^*  (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); ZONAL WIND;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 33748757651     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-006-0148-2     Document Type: Article

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