The "year" of tropical convection (May 2008-April 2010): Climate variability and weather highlights

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1189-1218

  Waliser, Duane E ^a   Moncrieff, Mitchell W ^b   Burridge, David ^c   Fink, Andreas H ^d   Gochis, Dave ^b   Goswami, B N ^b,e   Guan, Bin ^a   Harr, Patrick ^f   Heming, Julian ^g   Hsu, Huang Hsuing ^h   Jakob, Christian ⁱ   Janiga, Matt ^j   Johnson, Richard ^k   Jones, Sarah ^l   Knippertz, Peter ^m   Marengo, Jose ⁿ   Nguyen, Hanh ^j   Pope, Mick ^o   Serra, Yolande ^p   Thorncroft, Chris ^j   Wheeler, Matthew ^q   Wood, Robert ^r   Yuter, Sandra ^s   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^f NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^g MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^h NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

ⁱ MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^k Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^l KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos CTPEC   (Brazil)

^o BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^p UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^q Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^r UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^s NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EVENT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE RESEARCH; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; EASTERLY WAVE; EQUATORIAL WAVES; EXTRATROPICAL; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTEGRATED RESEARCH; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MODELING FRAMEWORKS; MULTISCALES; NORTH AMERICAN; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; RAINFALL EVENT; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TROPICAL CONVECTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TWO-WAY INTERACTION; WAVE ACTIVITY; WEATHER RESEARCH;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; RESEARCH;

TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 84865357602     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011BAMS3095.1     Document Type: Review

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