Vertical moist thermodynamic structure of the Madden-Julian oscillation in atmospheric infrared sounder retrievals: An update and a comparison to ECMWF interim Re-Analysis

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4576-4582

  Tian, Baijun ^a   Waliser, Duane E ^a   Fetzer, Eric J ^a   Yung, Yuk L ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical orthogonal functions; Madden Julian oscillation; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Satellite observations; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

AIRS DATA; AIRS RETRIEVAL; ANALYSIS METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; COMPOSITING; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EVENT SELECTION; EXTENDED EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; STRONG CONSISTENCY; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; THERMODYNAMIC STRUCTURES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; DATA PROCESSING; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMODYNAMICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 78651078129     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3486.1     Document Type: Article

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