Moisture asymmetry and MJO eastward propagation in an aquaplanet general circulation model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 8747-8760

  Hsu, Pang Chi ^a,b   Li, Tim ^a,b   Murakami, Hiroyuki ^b,c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUDGET CONTROL; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HUMIDITY CONTROL; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; EASTWARD PROPAGATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTRASEASONAL MODES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TROPOSPHERIC MOISTURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ADVECTION; ASYMMETRY; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BOUNDARY LAYER; HUMIDITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOISTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84919668167     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00148.1     Document Type: Article

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