Another look at influences of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on the wintertime East Asian weather

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  He, Jinhai ^a   Lin, Hai ^b   Wu, Zhiwei ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER ANALYSIS; OCEAN CURRENTS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; DIPOLE PATTERNS; DIRECT LINKS; DYNAMICAL MECHANISMS; EAST ASIA; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; ENHANCED CONVECTION; HADLEY CELLS; HADLEY CIRCULATION; HEATING SOURCE; INDIAN OCEAN; INTRASEASONAL TIME SCALE; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MARITIME CONTINENT; MODEL RESPONSE; MONSOON CIRCULATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; ROSSBY WAVE; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL WESTERN PACIFIC;

HEATING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; GYRE; LINEARITY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); ROSSBY WAVE; TIMESCALE; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 79951828113     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014787     Document Type: Article

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