The skeleton of tropical intraseasonal oscillations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8417-8422

  Majda, Andrew J ^a   Stechmann, Samuel N ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric convection; Convectively coupled equatorial waves; Madden Julian oscillation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; MADDEN JULIAN OSCILLATION; METEOROLOGY; MODULATION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEASONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 66649137078     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903367106     Document Type: Article

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