Coherent synoptic disturbances in the Australian monsoon

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 8409-8421

  Berry, Gareth J ^a   Reeder, Michael J ^a   Jakob, Christian ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mesoscale processes; Monsoons; Potential vorticity; Synoptic climatology

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN EASTERLY WAVES; AUSTRALIA; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; DATA SETS; EAST COAST; EXTRA-TROPICAL ROSSBY WAVES; ISENTROPIC; MERIDIONAL WINDS; MESOSCALE PROCESS; MONSOONS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; REANALYSIS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPECTRAL TECHNIQUES; SYNOPTIC CLIMATOLOGY; SYNOPTIC COMPOSITES; SYNOPTIC SYSTEMS; TIME INTERVAL; WEATHER SYSTEMS;

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; RAIN; VORTICITY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

CLIMATOLOGY; EASTERLY WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MONSOON; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; RAINFALL; ROSSBY WAVE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84871866831     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00143.1     Document Type: Article

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