Recent advance in understanding the dynamics of the Madden-Julian oscillation

Journal of Meteorological Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-33

  Li, Tim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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

Author keywords

eastward phase propagation; Madden Julian oscillation (MJO); physical mechanism of MJO initiation; scale interaction

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84896067255     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: 21914788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13351-014-3087-6     Document Type: Article

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