Role of stratiform rainfall in modifying the northward propagation of monsoon intraseasonal oscillation

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 19, 2009, Pages

  Chattopadhyay, R ^a   Goswami, B N ^a   Sahai, A K ^a   Fraedrich, K ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FEEDBACK; HEATING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN GAGES; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

ANOMALOUS RESPONSE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODEL; CONVECTIVE RAIN; CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION; DIABATIC HEATING; DYNAMICAL RESPONSE; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; HEAT SOURCES; HEATING DISTRIBUTIONS; IN-SITU; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MERIDIONAL DIPOLE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; RAIN RATES; SPACETIME STRUCTURES; SUMMER MONSOON; TOTAL RAINFALL; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION SATELLITES; VERTICAL PROFILE; VERTICAL SHEAR; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CUMULUS; DATA SET; HEATING; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE MISSION; STRATIFORM CLOUD; VERTICAL PROFILE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 72049120715     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009jd011869     Document Type: Article

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