Simulation of monsoon intraseasonal oscillations in a coarse-resolution aquaplanet GCM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5662-5669

  Ajayamohan, R S ^a   Khouider, Boualem ^b   Majda, Andrew J ^a,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

convective parameterization; monsoon intraseasonal oscillations; tropical convection

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FLOW PATTERNS; MECHANICAL WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION; CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE EVENTS; CONVERGENCE ZONES; SEASONAL MIGRATION;

TROPICAL ENGINEERING; CLIMATE MODELS;

FLOW PATTERN; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LATITUDE; MONSOON; OCEANIC CONVECTION; PARAMETERIZATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 84905316152     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060662     Document Type: Article

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