Contributions of convectively coupled equatorial Rossby waves and Kelvin waves to the real-time multivariate MJO indices

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 469-478

  Roundy, Paul E ^a   Schreck III, Carl J ^a   Janiga, Matthew A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP CONVECTIONS; EIGEN-MODES; EQUATORIAL ROSSBY WAVES; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; KELVIN WAVES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATIONS; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATIONS; PHASE SPACES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PROPAGATING MODES; RANDOM VARIATIONS; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVE SIGNALS; WIND DATUM; ZONAL WINDS;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GRAVITY WAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; PHASE SPACE METHODS;

FREQUENCY BANDS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; EQUATORIAL WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROSSBY WAVE; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 64149107534     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2595.1     Document Type: Article

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