Spontaneous onset of a Madden-Julian oscillation event in a cloud-system-resolving simulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2009, Pages

  Miura, Hiroaki ^a,b   Satoh, Masaki ^c   Katsumata, Masaki ^b  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; GLOBAL CLOUDS; HORIZONTAL GRID; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INDIAN OCEAN; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES;

LOCATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 70349246501     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039056     Document Type: Article

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