Transition between suppressed and active phases of intraseasonal oscillations in the Indo-Pacific warm pool

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 5519-5530

  Agudelo, Paula A ^a   Curry, J A ^a   Hoyos, C D ^a   Webster, P J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES;

HIGHER-FREQUENCY TROPICAL WEATHER; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; WARM POOL;

EID: 33751429242     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3924.1     Document Type: Article

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