Extended-range ensemble forecasting of tropical cyclogenesis in the northern Indian Ocean: Modulation of Madden-Julian Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Fu, Xiouhua ^a   Hsu, Pang Chi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

BAY OF BENGAL; COUPLED SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; FORECASTING SYSTEM; INDIAN OCEAN; INTRA-SEASONAL VARIABILITIES; LEADTIME; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; WEATHER AND CLIMATE FORECASTS; WESTERLY WIND BURSTS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CYCLOGENESIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PREDICTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WEATHER; WIND DIRECTION;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 80051526739     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048249     Document Type: Article

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