Comparison of moist static energy and budget between the GCM-simulated madden-julian oscillation and observations over the Indian Ocean and western Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 4981-4993

  Wu, Xiaoqing ^a,b   Deng, Liping ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOIST STATIC ENERGY; PHASE RELATIONSHIPS; SURFACE LATENT HEAT FLUXES;

ADVECTION; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPOSPHERE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ADVECTION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; TROPOSPHERE; ZONAL WIND;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84880655017     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00607.1     Document Type: Article

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