Vertical diabatic heating structure of the MJO: Intercomparison between recent reanalyses and TRMM estimates

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3208-3223

  Jiang, Xianan ^a   Waliser, Duane E ^b   Olson, William S ^c   Tao, Wei Kuo ^d   L'ecuyer, Tristan S ^e   Li, King Fai ^f   Yung, Yuk L ^f   Shige, Shoichi ^g   Lang, Stephen ^d   Takayabu, Yukari N ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diabatic heating; General circulation models; Madden Julian oscillation; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS HEATING; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; DIABATIC HEATING; EASTWARD PROPAGATION; FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEATING STRUCTURES; IN-PHASE; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERCOMPARISONS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; RADIATIVE HEATING; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WESTERN PACIFIC;

ESTIMATION; RAIN; RAIN GAGES;

HEATING;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVECTION; DATA SET; DIABATIC PROCESS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEATING; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SATELLITE MISSION; TROPOSPHERE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 81355139151     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3636.1     Document Type: Article

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