Coupled versus uncoupled hindcast simulations of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in the Year of Tropical Convection

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5670-5677

  Shelly, Ann ^a   Xavier, Prince ^a   Copsey, Dan ^a   Johns, Tim ^a   Rodríguez, José M ^a   Milton, Sean ^a   Klingaman, Nicholas ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

air sea interactions; coupled modeling; internal waves; MJO

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; WATER WAVES; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANICAL WAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE WATERS;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLED MODELING; INTERNAL WAVES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MJO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); AIR-SEA COUPLING; PHASE RELATIONSHIPS; TROPICAL CONVECTION; UNIFIED MODELING;

OCEAN CURRENTS; CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNWELLING; HINDCASTING; INTERNAL WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION;

EID: 84906861807     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL059062     Document Type: Article

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