Primary and successive events in the Madden-Julian Oscillation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 631 PART B, 2008, Pages 439-453

  Matthews, Adrian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intraseasonal oscillation; MJO; Spontaneous generation mechanism

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; TROPOSPHERE;

INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SPONTANEOUS GENERATION MECHANISM;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 44349193338     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.224     Document Type: Article

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