What is the role of the sea surface temperature uncertainty in the prediction of tropical convection associated with the MJO?

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3156-3175

  Wang, Wanqiu ^a   Kumar, Arun ^a   Fu, Joshua Xiouhua ^b   Hung, Meng Pai ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Madden Julian oscillation; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; RAIN GAGES; SPECIFICATIONS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN MODELING; CONVECTION PARAMETERIZATION; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; INTENSIVE OBSERVING PERIODS; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATOLOGY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRMM; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84943388971     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00385.1     Document Type: Article

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