Bimodal representation of the tropical intraseasonal oscillation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 1989-2000

  Kikuchi, Kazuyoshi ^a   Wang, Bin ^a   Kajikawa, Yoshiyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Index; MJO; Tropical intraseasonal oscillation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIMODAL ASSOCIATION; INDEX METHOD; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84860351869     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1159-1     Document Type: Article

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