Upscale feedback of tropical synoptic variability to intraseasonal oscillations through the nonlinear rectification of the surface latent heat flux

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 5738-5754

  Zhou, Chunhua ^a,b   LI, TIM ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Feedback; Latent heating; Surface fluxes; Synoptic scale processes; Tropical variability

Indexed keywords

INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; LATENT HEATING; MOIST STATIC ENERGY; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; SURFACE FLUXES; SURFACE LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SURFACE MOISTURES; SYNOPTIC VARIABILITY; SYNOPTIC-SCALE PROCESSES; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; TROPICAL INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION; TROPICAL VARIABILITY; TWO-WAY INTERACTION; WAVE TRAIN; WESTERN PACIFIC;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT FLUX; HEATING; LATENT HEAT; NONLINEAR FEEDBACK; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TROPICS;

TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; LATENT HEAT FLUX; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; SURFACE FLUX; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

SUGARCANE STREAK VIRUS;

EID: 78649305118     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3468.1     Document Type: Article

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