Convective momentum transport by rainbands within a Madden-Julian oscillation in a global nonhydrostatic model with explicit deep convective processes. Part I: Methodology and general results

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1317-1338

  Miyakawa, Tomoki ^a   Takayabu, Yukari N ^a   Nasuno, Tomoe ^b   Miura, Hiroaki ^a,b   Satoh, Masaki ^a,b   Moncrieff, Mitchell W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Madden julian oscillation; Mesoscale processes; Momentum; Nonhydrostatic models

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE ENVELOPE; HORIZONTAL ACCELERATION; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MEAN-WINDS; MESOSCALE PROCESS; MIDTROPOSPHERE; MOMENTUM FLUX; MOMENTUM TRANSPORTS; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; PROPAGATION SPEED; RAINBANDS; SIMILAR NUMBERS; THREE-LAYER STRUCTURES; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WESTERLY WINDS; ZONAL WIND;

MOMENTUM; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; VECTORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; RAINBAND; TROPOSPHERE; WESTERLY; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 84861465833     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-024.1     Document Type: Article

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