Propagating and nonpropagating MJO events over maritime continent

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 8430-8449

  Feng, Jing ^a,b   Li, Tim ^a,b   Zhu, Weijun ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BUDGET CONTROL; MECHANICAL WAVES;

EASTWARD PROPAGATION; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; MARITIME CONTINENT; MOISTURE ADVECTION; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

MOISTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; EDDY; HUMIDITY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOISTURE TRANSFER; ROSSBY WAVE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84946216341     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0085.1     Document Type: Article

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