Distinctive roles of air-sea coupling on different MJO events: A new perspective revealed from the DYNAMO/CINDY field campaign

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 794-812

  Fu, Xiouhua ^a,b   Wang, Wanqiu ^c   Lee, June Yi ^a,d   Wang, Bin ^a   Kikuchi, Kazuyoshi ^a   Xu, Jingwei ^b   Li, Juan ^a   Weaver, Scott ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^d Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Intraseasonal variability; Madden Julian oscillation; Numerical weather prediction forecasting

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORECASTING; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MECHANICAL WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; INDIAN OCEAN EXPERIMENTS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CONVECTION; EDDY; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84925010594     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00221.1     Document Type: Article

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