The impact of air-sea interactions on the predictability of the tropical intraseasonal oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 5870-5886

  Pegion, Kathy ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^a,b,c  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTS; SEAWATER; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; TROPICS;

850-HPA; AIR-SEA INTERACTIONS; BOREAL WINTERS; CLIMATE MODELS; COUPLED MODELS; FORCINGS; INTRASEASONAL VARIATIONS; KEY FACTORS; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATIONS; TIME FILTERING; TROPICAL INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; UNCOUPLED MODELS; ZONAL WINDS;

TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 60749093361     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2209.1     Document Type: Article

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