Impacts of shallow convection on MJO simulation: A moist static energy and moisture budget analysis

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2417-2431

  Cai, Qiongqiong ^a,b   Zhang, Guang J ^c   Zhou, Tianjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOIST STATIC ENERGY; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SHALLOW CONVECTION; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

BUDGET CONTROL; NATURAL CONVECTION;

MOISTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; ENERGY BUDGET; HUMIDITY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION;

EID: 84877810071     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00127.1     Document Type: Article

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