Enhanced MJO-like variability at high SST

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 988-1001

  Arnold, Nathan P ^a   Kuang, Zhiming ^b   Tziperman, Eli ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Intraseasonal variability; Surface temperature; Thermodynamics; Tropical variabilty

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; INTRA-SEASONAL; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOIST STATIC ENERGY; NATURAL CONSEQUENCES; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL VARIABILTY; VERTICAL ADVECTION; WARM CLIMATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ADVECTION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 84874816754     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00272.1     Document Type: Article

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