An MJO simulated by the NICAM at 14- and 7-km resolutions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3254-3268

  Liu, Ping ^a   Satoh, Masaki ^b   Wang, Bin ^a   Fudeyasu, Hironori ^a   Nasuno, Tomoe ^b   Li, Tim ^a   Miura, Hiroaki ^b,c   Taniguchi, Hiroshi ^b   Masunaga, Hirohiko ^d   Fu, Xiouhua ^a   Annamalai, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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

^c Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; BAROCLINIC; EASTWARD PROPAGATION; EXPLICIT REPRESENTATION; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; GLOBAL CLOUDS; GROWTH PHASIS; INDIAN OCEAN; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOISTURE CONVERGENCE; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; SIMULATED EVENTS; SPIN-UP; WESTERN PACIFIC; WIND ANOMALIES;

CLIMATOLOGY; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SIMULATORS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; EASTERLY WAVE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WESTERLY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 70449115282     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2965.1     Document Type: Article

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