Application of MJO simulation diagnostics to climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 6413-6436

  Kim, D ^a   Sperber, K ^b   Stern, W ^c   Waliser, D ^d   Kang, I S ^a   Maloney, E ^e   Wang, W ^c   Weickmann, K ^c   Benedict, J ^e   Khairoutdinov, M ^f   Lee, M I ^g,h   Neale, R ⁱ   Suarez, M ^c   Thayer Calder, K ^e   Zhang, G ^j  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

^f STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

850-HPA; ANNUAL CYCLE; BOREAL WINTERS; CLIMATE MODEL; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; DECAY TIME; DOMINANT TIME SCALE; E-FOLDING; EASTWARD PROPAGATION; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; KEY VARIABLES; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOISTURE CONVERGENCE; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; PHASE SPACES; POWER-SPECTRA; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SPECTRAL PEAK; SUBPHASES; SURFACE LATENT HEAT FLUXES; TIME-SCALES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WORKING GROUPS; ZONAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; MOISTURE; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; TIME MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOISTURE FLUX; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; STRATIFORM CLOUD; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 77649307988     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3063.1     Document Type: Article

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