A simulated preconditioning of typhoon genesis controlled by a boreal summer Madden-Julian oscillation event in a global cloud-system-resolving model

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 65-68

  Oouchi, Kazuyoshi ^a   Noda, Akira T ^a   Satoh, Masaki ^b   Miura, Hiroaki ^a,c   Tomita, Hirofumi ^a   Nasuno, Tomoe ^a   Iga, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

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EID: 65449168378     PISSN: 13496476     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2009-017     Document Type: Article

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