Spatiotemporal wavelet transform and the multiscale behavior of the Madden-Julian oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 3814-3834

  Kikuchi, Kazuyoshi ^a   Wang, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS RESULTS; ENERGY CONCENTRATION; EQUATORIAL WAVES; FOURIER; GEOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; GLOBAL WAVELET SPECTRUMS; KELVIN WAVES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MULTI-SCALE STRUCTURES; MULTISCALES; NONSTATIONARY; PROPAGATION SPEED; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIOTEMPORAL WAVES; SPECTRAL POWER DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES; TIME AND SPACE; TIME-SPACE; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVE PROPERTIES;

COASTAL ZONES; GRAVITY WAVES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

FOURIER TRANSFORM; GRAVITY WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 77958109759     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI2693.1     Document Type: Article

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