Identifying the MJO, equatorial waves, and their impacts using 32 years of HIRS upper-tropospheric water vapor

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1418-1431

  Schreck, Carl J ^a   Shi, Lei ^b   Kossin, James P ^b,c   Bates, John J ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; EQUATORIAL ROSSBY WAVES; EXTRA-TROPICAL ROSSBY WAVES; HIGH RESOLUTION INFRARED RADIATION SOUNDERS; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION;

COASTAL ZONES; INFRARED RADIATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SUBSIDENCE; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS;

TROPICS;

EQUATORIAL WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84874840000     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00034.1     Document Type: Article

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