Origin of the intraseasonal variability over the north pacific in boreal summer

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1211-1229

  Wang, Lu ^a   Li, Tim ^b   Zhou, Tianjun ^a   Rong, Xinyao ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MAXIMUM AMPLITUDE; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; SYNOPTIC-SCALE EDDIES; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TWO-WAY INTERACTION; VORTICITY TRANSPORTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL STORAGE; ENERGY CONVERSION; SPACE APPLICATIONS; VORTICITY;

TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

BAROTROPIC MOTION; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; VORTICITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84874832075     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00704.1     Document Type: Article

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