Midlatitude westward propagating disturbances preceding intraseasonal oscillations of convection over the subtropical western North Pacific during summer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2007, Pages

  Lu, Riyu ^a   Ding, Hui ^a   Ryu, Chan Su ^b   Lin, Zhongda ^a   Dong, Huilin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b Chosun University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; STATISTICS; TROPOSPHERE;

INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; OSCILLATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 38549155123     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031277     Document Type: Article

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