Westerly wind burst and their relationship with intraseasonal variations and ENSO. Part II: Energetics over the western and central Pacific

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3346-3361

  Seiki, Ayako ^a   Takayabu, Yukari N ^a,b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; KINETIC ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; TROPOSPHERE;

ENERGY FLUX CONVERGENCE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; WESTERLY WIND BURSTS;

WIND;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BAROTROPIC MODE; EDDY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENERGETICS; ENERGY FLUX; KINETIC ENERGY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; WIND FIELD;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 35748960850     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3503.1     Document Type: Article

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