The occurrence of cirrus clouds associated with eastward propagating equatorial n = 0 inertio-gravity and Kelvin waves in November 2011 during the CINDY2011/DYNAMO campaign

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 12,941-12,947

  Suzuki, Junko ^a   Fujiwara, Masatomo ^b   Nishizawa, Tomoaki ^c   Shirooka, Ryuichi ^a   Yoneyama, Kunio ^a   Katsumata, Masaki ^a   Matsui, Ichiro ^c   Sugimoto, Nobuo ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

equatorial Kelvin wave; n = 0 eastward inertio gravity equatorial wave; TTL cirrus clouds

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; DEHYDRATION; GRAVITY WAVES; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;

CIRRUS CLOUDS; EQUATORIAL WAVES; HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION LIDARS; INDIAN OCEAN EXPERIMENTS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; KELVIN WAVES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION;

CLOUDS;

CIRRUS; DEHYDRATION; EQUATORIAL WAVE; GRAVITY WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PERIODICITY; RADIOSONDE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SUPERSATURATION; TROPOPAUSE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84891274932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD019960     Document Type: Article

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