Moistening processes before the convective initiation of Madden-Julian oscillation events during the CINDY2011/DYNAMO period

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 622-643

  Nasuno, Tomoe ^a   Li, Tim ^b,c   Kikuchi, Kazuyoshi ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BUDGET CONTROL; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL WAVES; MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONVECTIVE INITIATION; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; EQUATORIAL ROSSBY WAVES; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; INDIAN OCEAN EXPERIMENTS; INTENSIVE OBSERVATION PERIODS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84928901928     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00132.1     Document Type: Article

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