Process-oriented diagnosis of East Pacific warm pool intraseasonal variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 6305-6324

  Maloney, Eric D ^a   Jiang, Xianan ^b   Xie, Shang Ping ^c   Benedict, James J ^d  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b Los Angeles   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION; COMPLEX EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; PROPAGATION PATTERN; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; VERTICAL COMPONENT;

LAKES;

AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MOISTURE TRANSFER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRMM; WARM POOL; WIND SHEAR; ZONAL WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 84905898830     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00053.1     Document Type: Article

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