Propagating diurnal disturbances embedded in the Madden-Julian Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2007, Pages

  Ichikawa, Hiroki ^a   Yasunari, Tetsuzo ^a,b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN;

MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PROPAGATING DIURNAL DISTURBANCES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; RAINFALL;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 36549025916     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030480     Document Type: Article

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