Examining the wintertime response to tropical convection over the Indian Ocean by modifying convective heating in a full atmospheric model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 19, 2007, Pages

  Barlow, Mathew ^a   Hoell, Andrew ^a   Colby, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEATING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPICAL CONVECTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DIABATIC PROCESS; HEATING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; ROSSBY WAVE; THERMAL CONVECTION; WINTER;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 37249018121     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030043     Document Type: Article

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