MJO initiation processes over the tropical Indian ocean during DYNAMO/CINDY2011

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2121-2135

  Li, Tim ^a,b   Zhao, Chongbo ^c   Hsu, Pang Chi ^a   Nasuno, Tomoe ^d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intraseasonal variability

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; NASA; TROPOSPHERE;

EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN EXPERIMENTS; INITIATION PROCESS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; TRIGGERING MECHANISM; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; TROPOSPHERIC MOISTENING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; GYRE; HUMIDITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; TROPOSPHERE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84926059279     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00328.1     Document Type: Article

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