Climatology and interannual variability of convectively coupled equatorial waves activity

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 4451-4465

  Huang, Ping ^a   Huang, Ronghui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric; Convection; Interannual variability; Intertropical convergence zone; Kelvin waves; Rossby waves; Tropics; Waves

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; EASTERN PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL WAVES; FILTERING METHOD; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLE; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; KELVIN WAVES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL CYCLE; SST ANOMALIES; USER SERVICES; WARM POOLS; ZONAL MEANS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COASTAL ZONES; GRAVITY WAVES; LAKES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TROPICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; EL NINO; EQUATORIAL WAVE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; KELVIN WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 80052627027     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4021.1     Document Type: Article

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