Moistening processes for Madden-Julian oscillations during DYNAMO/CINDY

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3041-3057

  Tseng, Kai Chih ^a   Sui, Chung Hsiung ^a   Li, Tim ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUDGET CONTROL; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; TROPOSPHERE;

INDIAN OCEAN EXPERIMENTS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOISTURE CONVERGENCE; NONLINEAR MOISTURE; OPERATIONAL ASSIMILATION; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

MOISTURE;

EID: 84949818973     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00416.1     Document Type: Article

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