Characteristics of 3-4- and 6-8-day period disturbances observed over the tropical Indian ocean

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4158-4174

  Yasunaga, Kazuaki ^a   Yoneyama, Kunio ^a   Moteki, Qoosaku ^a   Fujita, Mikiko ^a   Takayabu, Yukari N ^a   Suzuki, Junko ^a   Ushiyama, Tomoki ^b   Mapes, Brian ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Indian Ocean; Madden Julian oscillation; Sea surface temperature; Tropics

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND FLOW; BAROTROPIC STRUCTURES; CLIMATE DATA; COUPLED WAVES; DIURNAL VARIATION; EARTH SIMULATORS; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENSEMBLES; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; EQUATORIAL ROSSBY WAVES; EQUIVALENT DEPTH; INDIAN OCEAN; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MERIDIONAL WINDS; MIDTROPOSPHERE; PRECIPITATION DATA; REANALYSIS; ROSSBY WAVE; ROSSBY-GRAVITY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; ZONAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA PROCESSING; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER VAPOR;

TROPICS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GRAVITY WAVE; KALMAN FILTER; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 78650198704     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3469.1     Document Type: Article

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