A possible new mechanism for northward propagation of boreal summer intraseasonal oscillations based on TRMM and MERRA reanalysis

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 7-8, 2013, Pages 1611-1624

  Abhik, S ^a   Halder, M ^a   Mukhopadhyay, P ^a   Jiang, X ^b   Goswami, B N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation; Cloud hydrometeors; Diabatic heating; MERRA; TRMM

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; BAROTROPIC MOTION; DIABATIC PROCESS; HEATING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MONSOON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TRMM; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

EID: 84875737020     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1425-x     Document Type: Article

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