A multiscale framework for the origin and variability of the South Pacific Convergence Zone

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 666, 2012, Pages 1165-1178

  Matthews, Adrian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

El Ni no; ENSO; La Ni na; MJO; SPCZ; Tropical extratropical interaction

Indexed keywords

BASIC MECHANISM; CYCLONIC VORTICITY; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; ENHANCED CONVECTION; ENSO; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERANNUAL; LATENT HEAT RELEASE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MJO; MULTISCALE FRAMEWORK; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PRIMARY MECHANISM; SCALE INTERACTIONS; SOUTH PACIFIC CONVERGENCE ZONES; SPCZ; SUBTROPICAL JET; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL-EXTRATROPICAL INTERACTIONS; WESTERN PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; RANDOM PROCESSES; VORTICITY;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CLIMATE FORCING; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LA NINA; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84864280818     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1870     Document Type: Article

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