Abrupt seasonal migration of the ITCZ into the summer hemisphere

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1878-1895

  Xian, Peng ^a   Miller, Ron L ^a  

^a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ATMOSPHERICS; DYNAMICS; HEATING; MOMENTUM; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; RAIN; SOLAR HEATING; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SUN;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; ABRUPT TRANSITION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; AXISYMMETRIC; CIRCULATION MODELS; HADLEY CIRCULATION; INTER TROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ); LAPSE RATE; LATITUDE (CO); MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; MIXED LAYER DEPTH (MLD); NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; OCEAN TEMPERATURES; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; SEA-SURFACE-TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONAL CYCLES; SEASONAL MIGRATION; SLAB OCEAN; SURFACE LAYERING; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERE (TOA); TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31); TROPICAL RAINFALL; UPPER LAYERS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC LAPSE RATE; CIRCULATION MODELING; HADLEY CELL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE WATER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 45849083197     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2367.1     Document Type: Article

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