Seasonality in the Madden-Julian oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 3169-3180

  Zhang, Chidong ^a   Dong, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; RAIN; TROPICS; WIND;

BOREAL WINTERS; ZONAL WINDS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; ZONAL WIND;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 4444245823     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<3169:SITMO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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