Tracking and prediction of large-scale organized tropical convection by spectrally focused two-step space-time EOF analysis

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 665, 2012, Pages 919-931

  Roundy, Paul E ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Convectively coupled equatorial waves; El Ni no Southern Oscillation; Intraseasonal prediction; Madden Julian oscillation

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SIGNALS; CROSS-VALIDATION ANALYSIS; EL NI NO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; EQUATORIAL WAVES; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GLOBAL TROPICS; HIGHER LATITUDES; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; REAL TIME; TIME INDEX; TROPICAL CONVECTION; WAVE NUMBERS;

FREQUENCY BANDS; LINEAR REGRESSION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; TROPICS; WAVES;

FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84862176798     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.962     Document Type: Article

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