The tropical Madden-Julian oscillation and the global wind oscillation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1601-1614

  Weickmann, Klaus ^a   Berry, Edward ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS SPECTRA; GLOBAL WINDS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MERIDIONAL TRANSPORT; MIDLATITUDES; MOMENTUM TRANSPORTS; MOUNTAIN TORQUES; NOISE PROCESS; NOISE SPECTRA; OSCILLATORY BEHAVIORS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHASE RELATION; PHASE SPACES; PHASE-SPACE PROJECTION; PHYSICAL PROCESS; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL CONVECTION; WAVE ENERGY; WINTER SEASONS;

LANDFORMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESEARCH; TROPICS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

PHASE SPACE METHODS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CORRELATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WAVE ENERGY; WIND; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 68249141504     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2686.1     Document Type: Article

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