Latitude-height structure of the atmospheric angular momentum cycle associated with the Madden-Julian ocillation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1564-1575

  Egger, Joseph ^a   Weickmann, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; COOLING; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC ANGULAR MOMENTUM CYCLE; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS (EOFS); MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION (OLR);

METEOROLOGY;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847382898     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3363.1     Document Type: Article

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