Planetary scale selection of the Madden-Julian oscillation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2429-2443

  Li, Tim ^a   Zhou, Chunhua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINED EFFECT; CRITICAL DISTANCE; FRICTIONAL BOUNDARIES; IN-PHASE; INITIAL PERTURBATION; KELVIN WAVES; LEVEL MODEL; LINEAR HEATING; LONG WAVES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOISTURE CONVERGENCE; NON-LINEAR HEATING; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PHASE SPEED; PLANETARY SCALE; ROSSBY WAVE; SCALE SELECTION; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; UNSTABLE MODES; WAVE NUMBERS; ZONAL WAVENUMBER; ZONAL WIND;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRICTION; GRAVITY WAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

HEATING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; EQUATORIAL WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PERTURBATION; ROSSBY WAVE; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 70349268098     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS2968.1     Document Type: Article

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