A 9-season TRMM observation of the austral summer MJO and low-frequency equatorial waves

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 87 A, Issue , 2009, Pages 295-315

  Masunaga, Hirohiko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATORIAL WAVE; INFRARED IMAGERY; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MOISTURE FLUX; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; ROSSBY WAVE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 71549159483     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.87a.295     Document Type: Article

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