Intraseasonal and seasonal-to-interannual Indian Ocean convection and hemispheric teleconnections

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 8850-8867

  Hoell, Andrew ^a   Barlow, Mathew ^b   Saini, Roop ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; ENSO; Interannual variability; Intraseasonal variability; Madden Julian oscillation; Tropical variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; ENSO; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; TROPICAL VARIABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BAROTROPIC WAVE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIABATIC PROCESS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

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

EID: 84888068763     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00306.1     Document Type: Article

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