Weather types across the Maritime Continent: From the diurnal cycle to interannual variations

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Volumn 2, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Moron, Vincent ^a,b   Robertson, Andrew W ^b   Qian, Jian Hua ^c   Ghil, Michael ^d,e  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Earth Institute   (United States)

^c University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ENSO; Frequency modulation; K means clustering; MJO; Pattern modulation; Scale interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943422289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2014.00065     Document Type: Article

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