Interactions between boreal summer intraseasonal oscillations and synoptic-scale disturbances over the western North Pacific. Part I: Energetics diagnosis

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 927-941

  Hsu, Pang Chi ^a   Li, Tim ^a   Tsou, Chih Hua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Eddies; Energy budget; Intraseasonal variability; Kinetic energy; North Pacific Ocean; Summer warm season; Synoptic scale processes

Indexed keywords

EDDIES; ENERGY BUDGETS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; SUMMER/WARM SEASON; SYNOPTIC-SCALE PROCESSES;

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY CONVERSION; GEOPHYSICS; HURRICANES; KINETIC ENERGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; VORTICITY;

TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

EDDY; ENERGY BUDGET; KINETIC ENERGY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 79953799736     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3833.1     Document Type: Article

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