Evolution of the population of precipitating convective systems over the equatorial indian ocean in active phases of the Madden-Julian oscillation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2713-2725

  Zuluaga, Manuel D ^a   Houze, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective storms; Madden Julian oscillation; Mesoscale processes; Precipitation; Radars Radar observations; Storm environments

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE STORMS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MESOSCALE PROCESS; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS; STORM ENVIRONMENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADAR; STORMS;

RAIN;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DOPPLER RADAR; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; STORM;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84880907830     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0311.1     Document Type: Article

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