The Madden-Julian oscillation in ECHAM6 and the introduction of an objective MJO metric

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3241-3257

  Crueger, Traute ^a   Stevens, Bjorn ^a   Brokopf, Renate ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; CIRCULATION SYSTEMS; EASTWARD PROPAGATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MULTIVARIATE APPROACH; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; PARAMETER SETTING; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION;

CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); ZONAL WIND;

EID: 84876728063     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00413.1     Document Type: Article

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