The moist static energy budget of a composite tropical intraseasonal oscillation in a climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 711-729

  Maloney, Eric D ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

850-HPA; CLIMATE MODELS; EDDY KINETIC ENERGIES; HORIZONTAL ADVECTIONS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITIES; LATENT HEAT FLUXES; LEADING TERMS; LOWER TROPOSPHERES; MOIST STATIC ENERGIES; MOISTURE ADVECTIONS; ON TIME; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITIES; SPECIFIC HUMIDITIES; STATE DISTRIBUTIONS; SURFACE LATENT HEAT FLUXES; TIME-SCALE; TROPICAL INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; TROPICAL INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITIES; ZONAL WINDS;

ADVECTION; BUDGET CONTROL; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; MOISTURE; POLARIZATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STRAIN ENERGY; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; WIND POWER;

MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

ADVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TROPOSPHERE; WESTERLY; WIND;

EID: 64049095308     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2542.1     Document Type: Article

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