Loss of significance and multidecadal variability of the Madden-Julian oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3739-3751

  Suhas, E ^a   Goswami, B N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND POWER; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; KINETIC ENERGY EXCHANGES; LONG WAVES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; MULTIDECADAL VARIATIONS; RATE OF INCREASE; REANALYSIS; SLIDING WINDOW; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TIME-SCALES; WAVE NUMBER DOMAIN; WAVE NUMBERS; ZONAL MEAN FLOWS; ZONAL MEANS; ZONAL WIND;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; KINETIC ENERGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

STRESS ANALYSIS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DECADAL VARIATION; ENERGY FLUX; GLOBAL WARMING; KINETIC ENERGY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955480462     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3180.1     Document Type: Article

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