Coupled impacts of the diurnal cycle of sea surface temperature on the Madden-Julian oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 8422-8443

  Seo, Hyodae ^a   Subramanian, Aneesh C ^b   Miller, Arthur J ^b   Cavanaugh, Nicholas R ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Deep convection; Diurnal effects; Madden Julian oscillation; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Regional models

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; NATURAL CONVECTION; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; DEEP CONVECTION; DIURNAL EFFECTS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; REGIONAL MODEL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84909581783     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00141.1     Document Type: Article

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