Tropical intraseasonal modes of the atmosphere

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Volumn 39, Issue , 2014, Pages 189-215

  Serra, Yolande L ^a   Jiang, Xianan ^b,c   Tian, Baijun ^c   Amador Astua, Jorge ^d   Maloney, Eric D ^e   Kiladis, George N ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^e Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^f EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric transport; Convective organization; Convectively coupled equatorial waves; Madden Julian oscillation; Multiscale variability; Tropical convection

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; EQUATORIAL WAVES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MULTISCALE VARIABILITY; TROPICAL CONVECTION;

TROPICS;

EID: 84908023020     PISSN: 15435938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-020413-134219     Document Type: Review

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