Advection, moistening, and shallow-to-deep convection transitions during the initiation and propagation of Madden-Julian Oscillation

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 938-949

  Hagos, Samson ^a   Feng, Zhe ^a   Landu, Kiranmayi ^b   Long, Charles N ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BHUBANESWAR   (India)

Author keywords

advection moistening; convection transitions; Madden Julian Oscillation

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; MOISTURE; NATURAL CONVECTION;

DEEP CONVECTION; EASTWARD PROPAGATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDIVIDUAL MODELING; INITIATION AND PROPAGATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOISTURE VARIABILITY; SHALLOW TO DEEP CONVECTION TRANSITIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SHALLOW WATER; TROPOSPHERE; UPLIFT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84937033547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000335     Document Type: Article

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