Deep atmospheric response to the spring Kuroshio over the East China Sea

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 4959-4972

  Xu, Haiming ^a   Xu, Mimi ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^b,c   Wang, Yuqing ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Boundary currents; Deep convection; Rainbands

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC HEATING; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; BOUNDARY CURRENTS; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; CUMULUS CONVECTION; DEEP CONVECTION; EAST CHINA SEA; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH WIND SPEED; IN-PHASE; KUROSHIO; LIGHTNING FLASH RATE; LOWER ATMOSPHERE; MARINE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; NARROW BANDS; QUIKSCAT; RAINBANDS; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SCATTEROMETERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SPRING SEASON; SURFACE WIND CONVERGENCE; SURFACE WIND SPEED; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; COASTAL ZONES; LIGHTNING PROTECTION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NATURAL CONVECTION; OCEAN CURRENTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR MEASUREMENT; SATELLITES; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE; WIND EFFECTS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUNDARY CURRENT; BOUNDARY LAYER; CUMULUS; LIGHTNING; RAINBAND; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND VELOCITY;

EAST CHINA SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 80053153431     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-10-05034.1     Document Type: Article

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