Latent heating characteristics of the MJO computed from TRMM Observations

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1322-1334

  Barnes, Hannah C ^a   Zuluaga, Manuel D ^a   Houze, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEATING; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TRMM;

INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84925014733     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022530     Document Type: Article

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