The role of SST structure in convectively coupled kelvin-rossby waves and its implications for MJO formation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 5915-5930

  Kang, In Sik ^a   Liu, Fei ^b   Ahn, Min Seop ^b   Yang, Young Min ^a   Wang, Bin ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMINANT TIME SCALE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTRASEASONAL DISTURBANCES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOISTURE CONVERGENCE; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; FRICTION;

MOISTURE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BAROCLINIC MOTION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVERGENCE; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOISTURE FLUX; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84881640451     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00303.1     Document Type: Article

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