Influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on upper tropospheric humidity

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 23, 2002, Pages ACL-10-1-ACL-10-7

  Sassi, Fabrizio ^a   Salby, Murry ^b   Pumphrey, Hugh C ^c   Read, William G ^d  

^a Atmospheric Systems and Analysis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

3319 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: General circulation; 3374 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Tropical meteorology; 3399 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: General or miscellaneous

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; NATURAL CONVECTION; OSCILLATIONS; STORMS; THERMAL EFFECTS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; GYRE; HUMIDITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 36448982520     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD001331     Document Type: Article

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