A Case Study of the Mechanics of extratropical influence on the initiation of the Madden-Julian oscillation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 515-528

  Ray, Pallav ^a   Zhang, Chidong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MODEL; EXTRATROPICAL; EXTRATROPICS; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MEAN FLOW; MERIDIONAL WINDS; MOMENTUM BUDGET; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; REANALYSIS; SOUTHERN INDIAN OCEAN; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TIME-SCALES; WAVE ACTIVITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; KINETIC ENERGY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOMENTUM; SIMULATION; TROPOSPHERE; WESTERLY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 77953263652     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3059.1     Document Type: Article

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