Impact of the Madden-Julian oscillation on wintertime precipitation in Canada

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3822-3839

  Lin, Hai ^a   Brunet, Gilbert ^a   Mo, Ruping ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; CONVECTION PATTERNS; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; EXTRATROPICS; INDIAN OCEAN; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MARITIME CONTINENT; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTHEAST REGIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; TROPICAL CONVECTION; TROPICAL WESTERN PACIFIC; WEST COAST; WESTERN PACIFIC;

CLIMATOLOGY; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEATING; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; WIND EFFECTS;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE EFFECT; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; WINTER;

CANADA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 77957715208     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3363.1     Document Type: Article

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