Quasi-biweekly oscillation of the convection around Sumatra and low-level tropical circulation in boreal spring

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 189-205

  Wen, Min ^a   Zhang, Renhe ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; HEAT CONVECTION; TROPOSPHERE; WIND EFFECTS;

ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; QUASI-BIWEEKLY OSCILLATION; TROPICAL CONVECTION;

STORMS;

CONVECTION; CYCLONE; HEAT SOURCE; MONSOON; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SPRING (SEASON); TROPOSPHERE; WIND FIELD;

ASIA; EURASIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 39749095121     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR1991.1     Document Type: Article

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