Structural evolution of the Madden-Julian Oscillation from COSMIC radio occultation data

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Zeng, Zhen ^a   Ho, Shu Peng ^a   Sokolovskiy, Sergey ^a   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLOUDS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; IONOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; BENDING ANGLE; BOREAL WINTERS; CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY , IONOSPHERE , AND CLIMATES; ENHANCED CONVECTION; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; REANALYSIS; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; TROPOPAUSE REGION; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

MOISTURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRS; COSMIC; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HUMIDITY; IONOSPHERE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

NIA;

EID: 84870599905     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD017685     Document Type: Article

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